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It has a crystal inside
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geode
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GEODE is a trade association that represents independent energy distribution and distribution-related companies, as well as other organisations in natural gas and electricity , privately or publicly owned, in Europe. It was founded in 1991 and represents ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rounded stone with a hollow center lined with crystals, 1670s, from French géode , from Latin geodes , from Greek geodes "earthy, earth-like," from ge "earth" (Homeric gaia ; see Gaia ) + -oides , adjective suffix, "characterized by." Perhaps so called ...
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Not the least curious part of this outcrop is the black thread of iron silicate which, broken in places, subtends it to the east: some specimens have geodes yielding brown powder, and venal cavities lined with botryoidal quartz of amethystine tinge.
The music swelled in a crescendo, cube-drums, ice-horns, percussion geodes, and more, all in perfect harmony.
Quantities of quartz crystals, geodes, apache tears, jasper pebbles, moonstone beads, and….
Treasure seekers of this kind found a stone that looked like a geode in 1961 near Olancha, on the edge of the Amargosa Desert.