Genocide and Social Death. CLAUDIA CARD. Social death, central to the evil of genocide (whether the genocide is homicidal or. primarily cultural), distinguishes genocide from other mass murders. Loss of social. vitality is loss of identity and thereby of meaning for oneâs existence. Seeing social.
Peridot is one of the few gemstones that occur in only one color, an olive-green. The intensity and tint of the green, however, depends on how much iron is contained in the crystal structure, so the color of individual peridot gems can vary from yellowâto oliveâto brownish-green.
This is the standard by which all other peridot is graded by. Peridot's clarity is appraised by counting the number of black mineral crystals in it that are visible to the naked eye. Each inclusion present lowers the overall value of the stone by a percentage.