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Definition of Aventurin
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aventurin
Literary usage of Aventurin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of chemical technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner, Rudolf Wagner, William Crookes (1877)
"The Bavarian and Bohemian glass-houses produce an aventurin glass rivalling the
original. Von Pettenkofer has prepared aventurin glass direct from ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"See aventurin.— Lustrous glaze, a name given to the extremely thin glaze of
certain kinds of pottery, especially Greek, Egyptian, etc., ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"... constitutes likewise the crystalline spangles contained in aventurin glass (i.
477), which in fact lie has produced by fusing ..."
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