2. Noun. (minerology) (alternative spelling of hauynite) ¹
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Definition of Hauyne
1. a blue mineral [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hauyne
Literary usage of Hauyne
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Practical and Theoretical: Embracing Its by James Curtis Booth, Campbell Morfit (1862)
"... 0-42 trace 0-95 1-69 0-12 — 98-81 98-30 98-11 98-73 phate and muriate of
alkali, which is chiefly soda. local, 4rc. hauyne occurs lavas, at Ihe I ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"The blue colour of hauyne appears to arise from a small quantity of a metallic
sulphide ... All specimens of hauyne, when treated with hydrochloric acid, ..."
3. A Treatise on Mineralogy by Charles Upham Shepard (1857)
"It scarcely differs, according to Whitney, from hauyne, though he observes that
it is soluble in acids, without any trace of sulphuretted hydrogen. ..."
4. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"Fusible : a rudely spherical fragment of blue hauyne from Vesuvius, about 1 mm.
in diameter fused readily to a colourless ..."
5. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1814)
"As hauyne is not completely decomposed by muriatic acid, the silica still retaining a
... It would have been better to have fused the hauyne with potash, ..."
6. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1814)
"It would have been better to have fused the hauyne with potash, ... But as 1 had
not a proper quantity of hauyne in a state of sufficient purity, ..."
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