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Definition of Tourmalines
1. tourmaline [n] - See also: tourmaline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tourmalines
Literary usage of Tourmalines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"Transparent tourmalines transmit light only when polarised in a plane ...
The numerous analyses which have been made of tourmalines (for which see Ram ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"The color of tourmalines varies with their composition ; the red, called rubellite,
are manganese tourmalines, containing lithium and manganese, ..."
3. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1897)
"Such was the discovery of the first of the matchless tourmalines of Mount Mica.
A heavy fall of snow prevented the students from continuing their ..."
4. Mineral Physiology and Physiography: A Second Series of Chemical and by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"We come now to the tourmalines, a family of silicates which, perhaps, might be
called a sub-tribe, since the five distinct species, representing as many ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"Tho color of tourmalines varies with their composition ; the red, called rubellite,
are manganeso tourmalines, containing lithium and manganese, ..."
6. The American Journal of Science, & C (1818)
"On the tourmalines and other Minerals found at Chesterfield and Goshen, Massachusetts,
by Col. GEORGE GIBBS. (For the American Journal of Science. ..."
7. A Book of Precious Stones: The Identification of Gems and Gem Minerals, and by Julius Wodiska (1909)
"... CHAPTER XX tourmalines A STONE of many colours is tourmaline; ** it was
introduced into Europe from India in 1703 and its name is adapted from ..."
8. Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied: For the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1881)
"The position of the crystal has no influence on the rings, but this is not the
case with the relative position of the two tourmalines. ..."
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