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Definition of Amazonite
1. n. A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.
Definition of Amazonite
1. Noun. a gem variety of microcline feldspar, varying from bright verdigris green to a bluish green. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amazonite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amazonite
Literary usage of Amazonite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Precious Stones and Gems: Their History, Sources and Characteristics by Edwin William Streeter (1898)
"amazonite. BEAUTIFUL green mineral is occasionally used as an ornamental stone
under the name of amazonite or Amazon Stone. Formerly it was nearly all ..."
2. Elements of Optical Mineralogy: An Introduction to Microscopic Petrography by Newton Horace Winchell, Alexander Newton Winchell (1908)
"... X 400; produced by hydrofluoric acid gas; from amazonite. Fig. 3. ... on a
thin section of amazonite, preserving the lattice structure of the amazonite. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The potash feldspar, as a rock-forming mineral, in most cases corresponds with
the amazonite and perthite series, while adularia is restricted to the ..."
4. A Book of Precious Stones: The Identification of Gems and Gem Minerals, and by Julius Wodiska (1918)
""amazonite" was originally misnamed, as none is found along the river of that
... As has already been said, amazonite is sometimes sold as "jade, ..."
5. Elements of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe Analysis: From a by Alfred Joseph Moses, Charles Lathrop Parsons (1916)
"Moonstone, amazonite, Etc. Described on p. 488. COMPOSITION. ... amazonite OR
AMAZON STONE.—This is a green opaque variety of the potash feldspar microcline ..."
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