different between aventurine vs fluorite

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aventurine, from Italian avventurino, from avventurare (“to venture; to make lucky or prosperous”), from avventura (“chance; adventure, venture”) + -are (suffix forming the infinitive of most regular verbs), apparently so named because it was discovered by accident in Murano, Italy, when brass or copper filings were dropped into melted glass (see, however, the 1843 quotation).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v?nt?????n/, /-tj??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v?nt?????n/, /-i?n/
• Hyphenation: aven?tur?ine

Noun

aventurine (countable and uncountable, plural aventurines)

1. A kind of brownish glass containing gold-coloured spangles.

   Synonym: goldstone
2. (mineralogy, by extension) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.

Alternative forms

• avanturine
• aventurin

Derived terms

• aventurescence
• aventurization

Translations

See also

• sunstone

References

Further reading

• aventurine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “aventurine”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Avanturine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database

Anagrams

• uninervate

French

Etymology

From aventure +? -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.v??.ty.?in/

Noun

aventurine f (plural aventurines)

1. aventurine

Further reading

• “aventurine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?fl??.ait/

Noun

fluorite (countable and uncountable, plural fluorites)

1. A widely occurring mineral (calcium fluoride), of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid.

   Fluorite is the main natural resource of Thailand.

Synonyms

• calcium fluoride
• Derbyshire spar
• fluor
• fluorspar

Translations

See also

• blue John

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Fluorite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “fluorite”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Italian

Etymology

fluoro +? -ite

Noun

fluorite f (plural fluoriti)

1. fluorite

Further reading

• fluorite in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana