Aventurine
A·ven·tu·rine
Aventurine
n.
- A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.
- A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. (Min.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Aventurine feldspar
- a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.