Water melon

Japanese: ウォーター・メロン - うぉーたーめろん
Water melon

…It is a silicate mineral with a complex composition, which is why it has the widest variety of colors among gemstones. Parti-colored tourmaline, which has two or more colored parts in one crystal, and water melon, which is green on the outside and red or pink on the inside, reminiscent of a watermelon, are characteristics unique to tourmaline and are highly valued. There are also single-colored ones that range from colorless to red, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, and black. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "water melon" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…複雑な組成のケイ酸塩鉱物で,そのために宝石のうちでも多様な色彩をもつ。一つの結晶石で二つあるいはそれ以上の色の部分をもつパーティカラード・トルマリンparti‐colored t.や,外側が緑色,内側が赤ないしピンク色の,スイカを思わせる〈ウォーター・メロン〉はトルマリンのみに見られる特徴で,珍重される。また単色でも,無色から赤,黄,緑,青,紫,褐色,黒までの色をもつものが見られる。…

※「ウォーター・メロン」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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