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Definition of Blue stone
1. Noun. Hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulfate.
Generic synonyms: Copper Sulfate, Copper Sulphate, Cupric Sulfate, Cupric Sulphate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Stone
Literary usage of Blue stone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia by Robert Baylor Semple (1894)
"blue stone. There is nothing remarkable respecting this church. They are very
destitute of ministerial ... [blue stone church was located in Mercer county. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1888)
"Besides, for some ores of this class, all or a portion of the blue-stone may be
used, as at Lake Valley, in the first wash-water. 5. ..."
3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1908)
"It means a good deal more to say copper sulfate than it does to say "blue stone."
Nobody would know what blue stone contains. You might learn of course ..."
4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1901)
"... was to the effect that in 1887 the plaintiff and fourteen other persons were
the producers of nearly the whole '*oa product of Hudson river blue stone, ..."
5. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in Miniature: To which are by Samuel Johnson (1812)
"... i. fits peculiar to women Jay, t. a bird with gaudy feather? Ja'«:!, î.
a precious azure or blue stone Ice, s. frozen water ; sugar concreted ..."
6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1905)
"... more careful study the blue stone is found to the more important of the two,
being more persistent stratigraphic- and much more valuable commercially. ..."
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