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• This online article is from Science Explorations, a collaboration between AMNH and Scholastic designed to promote science literacy. Written for students in grades 6-10, this article from Science World magazine has the following content:

  • An introduction to George Harlow, curator of one of the world's great gems and minerals collections at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
  • An overview of jade and Harlow's hunt for search of a blue-green jade with white speckles in Guatemala.

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  Less than 1 period