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Definition of Kyanites
1. kyanite [n] - See also: kyanite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kyanites
Literary usage of Kyanites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Geology of the State of Connecticut by Connecticut Geological Survey, James Gates Percival (1842)
"... and more rarely in kyanites. Near the Western border of its Northern ...
with kyanites, similar to that in Southbury, already noticed under the first ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1890)
"... or kyanites. On the north side is a prolongation of the garnet-actino-
lite (Tremola-) schists of the St. Gothard, and then gneiss; on the south side ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1865)
"... 49-53 Al'O1, 4-85 water and 3-12 gypsum, are probably hydrous kyanites.
Kyanite has also been observed altered to talc and steatite. (Dana, ii. 266. ..."
4. American Geology: Containing a Statement of the Principles of the Science by Ebenezer Emmons (1875)
"... these have required for their production only a moderate amount of heat.
The kyanites, garnet ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1838)
"... many minerals still unknown in these localities: green tourmalines, rubies,
kyanites and apatites. ..."
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