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Definition of Ceylonite
1. Noun. A dark-colored spinel containing iron.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceylonite
Literary usage of Ceylonite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"Colors: red of various shades, yellow, violet to blue in ruby spinel or magnesia
spinel; green, brown to black in ceylonite or ..."
2. Rock Minerals, Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1906)
"Colors: red of various shades, yellow, violet to blue in ruby spinel or magnesia
spinel; green, brown to black in ceylonite or ..."
3. Conversations on Mineralogy by Delvalle Varley (1822)
"The small dark green crystals on this specimen are ceylonite ; but they are not
very easy to see, being so much intermixed with mica, and other, minerals. ..."
4. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1868)
"Ceylon, ceylonite 7. ... ceylonite variety here, has the lu-'f' polished steel;
Newton, NJ, pearl-gray crystals, along with blue corundum, ..."
5. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1909)
"In these the percentage of MgO varies from 10 to 20. ceylonite occurs very
sparingly in the more siliceous rocks, ..."
6. Plattner's Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blowpipe by John H. Caswell, Carl Friedrich Plattner, Henry Bedinger Cornwall (1892)
"ceylonite, hercynite. Change color when heated, but are infusible. Dissolve in
borax and S. Ph. to a clear glass, colored by iron. ..."
7. Elements of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe Analysis: From a by Alfred Joseph Moses, Charles Lathrop Parsons (1916)
"The opaque varieties include: ceylonite (Iron Magnesia Spine!). ... (ceylonite 4.1.)
LUSTRE, vitreous. COLOR, as given and intermediate. STREAK, white. ..."
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