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moonstone

A semi-precious gemstone variety of the mineral potassium feldspar. It has a pale opalescent lustre because of its fine-scale oriented microstructure, which diffracts light.

Moonstone may refer to:

Moonstone, a type of gemstone (see orthoclase) The Moonstone, a novel by Wilkie Collins Moonstone Books, a publisher of graphic novels and comic books. Moonstone (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillainess, also known as Meteorite Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight, a 1992 computer game Moonstone (Lone Wolf), the most powerful magical artifact in the Lone Wolf gamebook series Moonstone, Ontario, a small hamlet near Coldwater, north of Barrie, in Ontario, Canada Moonstone, the name of the machine used to select numbers in the Lotto draw in the UK's National Lottery. Moonstone, one of the three keys to Atlantis in the computer game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Moon Stone, an item in the Pokémon video games and anime;

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