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Definition of Hessonite
1. Noun. A garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown.
Definition of Hessonite
1. Noun. An orange, cinnamon, or pinkish garnet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hessonite
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hessonite
Literary usage of Hessonite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade (1918)
"net; (2) Pyrope garnet; (3) hessonite garnet; and (4) Andradite garnet. ...
The hessonite garnets are frequently brownish red and are sometimes called ..."
2. The World's Minerals by Leonard James Spencer, William David Hamman (1916)
"hessonite—ALMANDINE hessonite (Plate 29, Fig. i).—hessonite, or cinnamon- stone,
is essentially a calcium-aluminium-garnet; but it always contains, ..."
3. Economic Mineralogy: A Practical Guide to the Study of Useful Minerals by Thomas Crook (1921)
"The garnets used chiefly as gemstones are almandine, hessonite, spessartite, ...
The chief and almost the only source of gem hessonite is Ceylon, ..."
4. Precious Stones by Wilbert Goodchild, Robert Dykes (1908)
"The Garnets are thus grouped— Aluminium Garnet IA Aluminium-Calcium Garnet—
hessonite. B. Aluminium-Magnesium Garnet •—Pyrope. c. ..."
5. Precious Stones by Wilbert Goodchild, Robert Dykes (1908)
"The Garnets are thus grouped— Aluminium Garnet IA Aluminium-Calcium Garnet—
hessonite. B. Aluminium-Magnesium Garnet —Pyrope. c. ..."
6. Petrographic Methods: The Authorized English Translation of Part I by Ernst Weinschenk, Robert Watson Clark (1912)
"... formations of hessonite occur on the contact of dikes containing hessonite,
with olivine or serpentine rocks. The latter have been shown to be ..."
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