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I chose garnets because they are my birthstone. Common garnets are a twelve sided crystal. a garnet is red, pink, purple, orange, yellow, green, black and brown.Its brown and black when colorless. There are many kinds of garnets like a raspberry garnet. A garnet is 7.5 on the hardness scale! In latin garnets the word means pomegrante. A garnet can be found in Africa, Malaya, India, U.S and Brazil. Garnets used to be in sandpaper because of its color and its sharp points and to dry off hands. I am so lucky to have a very lovely birthstone.

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 * Note from Mr. Kleyn. Great starting questions. Pay attention to using proper punctuation.

Note from Mr. VanOrden: Garnet is my birthstone! I found it interesting that garnet used to be used in sandpaper. I wonder why?

Note from Mrs. Smith: You are very lucky because this is a very beautiful and useful gem. You found so many interesting facts about the garnet, and you have woven them together nicely in your writing.