Meaning of fire opal | Babel Free

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Any transparent to translucent opal with a warm body colour of yellow, orange, or red.

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“[…] the body of each high seat was a single jewel of monstrous size: the left-hand seat a black opal, asparkle with steel-blue fire, the next a fire-opal, as it were a burning coal, the third seat an alexandrite, purple like wine by night but deep sea-green by day.”

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