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At its best, this
opaque stone is a glorious deep blue flecked with gold flakes of
iron pyrites. The name comes from the Latin lapis for stone and
lazulum from the Persian word meaning azure. Lapis, as it is
usually called, is thought to be the stone referred to as a
sapphire in the Old Testament. There it is described as being
sapphire sprinkled with gold dust, an apt description of lapis
lazuli.
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