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From: Jerry in Kodiak
Date: Wed Mar 30 20:21:03 2005
 
     
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>      I do have this right, don't I? I don't seem to have a book that
>     says, in so many words, that turquoise can't be white. Help? 

    No, and I'm sure you don't have a book which says it's red or orange
    or lavender or purple or any other color except some shade or
    combination of blue and green either,because, by definition, it
    doesn't occur in any of those colors. There is no reason to
    specifically state that turquoise is none of those colors because by
    a definition accepted from ancient times it's somewhere between an
    intense blue and a yellow/green, which, as you state, is caused by
    some combination of copper and iron. The people who are calling it
    white turquoise are the same sort who came up with the "red emerald"
    misnomer smoky "topaz" etc., etc.,etc..The references say what it
    is, not what it isn't. 

Jerry in Kodiak

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