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Australian Boulder Wood Fossil Opal Pair. Cabochon Oval Cut. 10.45 ct.
These beauties have a long history. Maybe 100 million years, in their day they were a tree, roots or who knows, part of vegetation of the great Australia. Whit the passage of time this wood became fossilized and there was a replacement of part of it by precious opal.
The Opal is associated with good luck, it is the birthstone for October and the gem fo 14th wedding anniversaries.
The name for the opal comes from the Sanskrit word "Upala", meaning precious stone or stone par excellence.
The Greek word "opallios" means "to see a change of colors".
The opal is an amorphous substance that belongs to the silica group. It is formed by a series of spherical microscopic structures of various sizes, which diffract light to show a beautiful play of colors.
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