mu tig
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མུ་ཏིག
pearl [RY]
pearl, what has been set free, pearl, pearl, 1 of rin chen nor bdun [JV]
SK pearl [IW]
[Skt] pearl [rin po che'i bye brag grol ba can te - nang gses su dbye na rigs drug mchis, ro bska, zhu rjes bsil, nus pas klad skyon gso, rtsa dkar gyi nad sel, dug nad la phan,//so mu tig tsam yang med pa,//bya khva ta'i kha nas mu tig med [IW]
(med) Pearl, Calcium carbonate CaCO3 (Drungtso 1999, Phrin Las 1987). mu tig dmar po, red pearl. glang po las byung ba'i mu tig dkar po, white pearl from elephant. shing du ya las byung ba'i sngo nyam can, blue pearl. shing ko la las ljang nyam can, green pearl. sbrul las byung ba'i mu tig dmar po, red pearl from snake. rgya mu tig / 'dol kha mu tig, Indian pearl. sro ma mu tig, mini-pearl (Phrin Las 1987).
A pearl is an organic mineral mixture formed with the soft living tissue of a shelled mollusk (see nya phyis, pearl oyster). Chemically pearls are made of calcium carbonate, either the mineral aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite (mindat.org).
(med) Aragonite, Calcium carbonate CaCO3 (Yeshi 2018). It is the second most common polymorph of natural calcium carbonate (the most common is calcite). A nearly always low-temperature, near surface mineral, it is significantly less widespread and abundant than calcite. Several mining sites in Tibet (mindat.org) Johannes Schmidt (talk) 13:10, 25 November 2021 (UTC)