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Definition of Staurolites
1. staurolite [n] - See also: staurolite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staurolites
Literary usage of Staurolites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Precious Stones; a Book of Reference for Jewellers by Wallis Richard Cattelle (1903)
"Zircon, Garnet, staurolites, Tourmaline, and Topaz of the Brownish-Red Color
There should be no ... staurolites are seldom met with, and they are very dark. ..."
2. Precious Stones; a Book of Reference for Jewellers by Wallis Richard Cattelle (1902)
"staurolites are seldom met with, and they are very dark. ... Zircon, staurolites,
topaz, and tourmaline are doubly refractive, the two former weak, ..."
3. Precious Stones; a Book of Reference for Jewellers by Wallis Richard Cattelle (1902)
"Zircon, Garnet, staurolites, Tourmaline, and Topaz of the Brownish-Red Color
There should be no ... staurolites are seldom met with, and they are very dark. ..."
4. Gems and Precious Stones of North America: A Popular Description of Their by George Frederick Kunz (1890)
"From their resemblance to a cross, these staurolites have found sale abroad as
... The Fannin County staurolites occur twinned in single and double crosses, ..."
5. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth, Charles Doolittle Walcott (1907)
"A silky gray schist studded with small red garnets and larger, though much less
conspicuous, staurolites. The cleavage is irregular and the laminae are ..."
6. The Story of Our Planet by Thomas George Bonney (1893)
"The rock which contains the belemnites has not undergone any important amount of
alteration, and the minerals in it are neither garnets nor staurolites, ..."
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