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Definition of Amazonstone
1. Noun. A bluish-green variety of microcline feldspar used as a gemstone. The best known occurrences are at Crystal Peak and Pike's Peak in Colorado. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amazonstone
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amazonstone
Literary usage of Amazonstone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Complete Mineral Catalog by Warren Mathews Foote (1909)
"1320+ amazonstone, Amazonite, unit prisms M and m, prisms z and / ... 2.oo 1325
amazonstone, broad perfect cleavage, bright and translucent, ..."
2. Annual Report by Geological Survey of Canada (1902)
"amazonstone. Fine cleavable masses of a verdigris-green, passing into white,
microcline, have been obtained by Mr. AP Low ..."
3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"Heddle, of St. Andrews, and found to be the variety of orthoclase felspar, termed
amazonstone. For the purpose of more careful examination as to the mode of ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"amazonstone, a beautiful green or blue feldspar. It is a variety of the mineral mi-
... Large quantities of green, cleavable amazonstone have been f ..."
5. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"... Ark. Ordinary microcline is common at many points. Use. — Same as for orthoclase;
sometimes as an ornamental material (amazonstone). ..."
6. A Book of Precious Stones: The Identification of Gems and Gem Minerals, and by Julius Wodiska (1909)
"amazonstone, with aventurine, is now classed by mineralogists with microline,
one of the feldspars, which occurs massive and in triclinic crystals. ..."
7. Catalogue of Section One of the Museum of the Geological Survey, Embracing by George Christian Hoffmann (1893)
"amazonstone.—Hull, Ottawa county, Q.—Presented by Mr. Table-case Garrett. (1491.
... amazonstone.—Lot 6, range A of Cameron, district of Nipis- W. ..."
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