Lexicographical Neighbors of Corundums
Literary usage of Corundums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"In the mixed corundums of Greece and Turkey the iron seems equally diffused
through the mass, imparting to it a bluish-grey colour ; but in specimens which ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1900)
"In the same journal, January, 1851, he gives complete analyses of several corundums
the effective hardness of which he had also determined. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"The other coloured corundums are generally known as ' oriental ' stones ; thus
the yellow ... may sometimes be usefully applied to tho coloured corundums. ..."
4. Precious Stones and Gems: Their History, Sources and Characteristics by Edwin William Streeter (1892)
"Among these corundums are occasionally found crystals of various shades of red
and violet ... Mr. GF Kunz, in describing the Montana corundums, mentions the ..."
5. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1904)
"White and yellow corundums are constantly being sold as diamonds. The King of
Portugal, I think, is said to have the largest diamond in the world, ..."
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