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Although the different stones formally have the same chemical composition, they are not exactly the same.
Every now and then an atom is replaced by a completely different atom ( and this could be as few as one in a million atoms ).
These so-called impurities are sufficient to absorb certain colors and leave the other colors unaffected.
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