Agates are sometimes opaque, but they are frequently translucent, and occasionally completely transparent. Agate is a variety of chalcedony, a crypto crystalline form of quartz. Translucency, patterns of color, or moss-like inclusions may distinguish this stone from other forms of chalcedony.

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