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| MLA Full: | "Amethyst Used to be Really Valuable." YouTube, uploaded by SciShow, 1 September 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt9Mfue8rtU. |
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SciShow, "Amethyst Used to be Really Valuable.", September 1, 2025, YouTube, 08:42, https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kt9Mfue8rtU. |
Diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires are most of the classic gemstones adorning royal jewels. But they used to be accompanied by a stone that nowadays is most often found in museum gift shops: Amethyst. Here's the story of amethyst's rise and fall as a gemstone for the wealthy, and the geology quirks that made it so special.
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