What's the difference between beryl and chrysoberyl?

Beryl


Definition:

  • (n.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.

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  • (1) Richard Beckinsale was Geoffrey, Paula Wilcox was Beryl, pretty, pert and given the best lines: "Beryl, we live in a permissive society."
  • (2) Other drawings are more bizarre, such as Waldo's wife, who is based on Terry Wogan, while Mrs Utah Watkins is unmistakably Beryl Bainbridge.
  • (3) Other names from TV production include Beryl Vertue, mother of Sue, who has credits ranging from Steptoe and Son to Men Behaving Badly and Sherlock .
  • (4) Renwick and Smith met in 1999, at a social club they both joined when they were widowed (Betty in 1998, Beryl in the 80s).
  • (5) "We're getting paid now," Beryl says, "but we would never be the kind of people who would ask for money."
  • (6) "I didn't want to go to my grave and get a Beryl," he said referring to Bainbridge, who was shortlisted five times, never won and received a posthumous Best of Beryl Booker prize .
  • (7) She has many memories of friends such as Beryl Bainbridge: "Beryl had amazing staying power, an extraordinary stamina – for writing, for drinking, for smoking – she kept on till the very end.
  • (8) Beryl Wilkins, a local historian, lives a stone's throw from a former school built in 1624 as a bequest from the lord of the manor, Lord Knyvett – the man, she says, who felt the collar of one Guy Fawkes.
  • (9) At Beryl's Florists, Julie Vaughan, said the whole village was in shock.
  • (10) "She's had no children, you know," Betty says, as a complete non sequitur, in the middle of Beryl talking about her first wage cheque.
  • (11) Miles, Beryl and their cat survived it twice, emerging slightly scathed and much less keen on the sea.
  • (12) At one point Betty says about David: "He wants his legs wiping down, doesn't he Beryl?"
  • (13) Her name is Beryl James and ... she comes from Cairns, and it was her wish that she celebrate her 100th birthday in the Australian parliament.
  • (14) (1972), a faint echo of the earlier plays, with more than 30 characters, but Simpson wrote several more television plays including Elementary My Dear Watson, a Sherlock Holmes parody for John Cleese for the BBC Comedy Playhouse in 1973, and material for Beryl Reid, Sheila Hancock, Ned Sherrin and Dick Emery.
  • (15) Harrogate is also famed as the home, in later life, of one of Britain's most brilliant cyclists, Beryl Burton, who died in 1996.
  • (16) It's been significantly updated – the stand-out moment for me was when Beryl and Betty did a rap over Don't Stop Me Now (they do the words – "I'm a sex machine, ready to reload", which is droll for their dry delivery – but they also chat all the way through: "I think you were out of tune, there".
  • (17) Someone even cold-called Beryl to ask her to write a piece about what it was like being the same age as the queen (this went down really badly, the unsolicited contact.
  • (18) Beryl French, 88, pensioner Stratford has so many visitors you could almost call it multicultural.
  • (19) Monday night's awards also saw the oldest ever Sony winners with BBC Radio Humberside's Beryl Renwick, 86, and 90-year-old Betty Smith winning the best entertainment programme.
  • (20) Which is fine provided that you ignore the wins of Beryl Burton, Mandy Jones and myself.

Chrysoberyl


Definition:

  • (n.) A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.

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