Lexicographical Neighbors of Phengites
Literary usage of Phengites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
"phengites. During the reign of Nero, there was a stone found in ... were to be
seen upon it; a property which has ob- lined for it the name of " phengites. ..."
2. Early and Imperial Rome: Or, Promenade Lectures on the Archaeology of Rome by Hodder Michael Westropp (1884)
"phengites. ' During the reign of Nero,' writes Pliny,' there was a stone found
in Cappadocia as hard as marble, white, and translucent, even in those parts ..."
3. Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Typographical by Robert Stuart (1854)
"Domitian had a portico, in •which he was in the constant habit of promenading,
enclosed with phengites, that he might be enabled to see every thing that was ..."
4. A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins by Johann Beckmann (1846)
"Domitian, when he suspected that plots were formed against him, caused a gallery,
in which he used to walk, to be lined with phengites, which by its ..."
5. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by ROBERT. JAMESON (1820)
"The phengites of the ancients would appear to have been foliated gypsum.
According to Pliny, it was employed instead of glass in windows, on account of its ..."
6. A History of Inventions and Discoveries by Johann Beckmann (1814)
"where he speaks of the phengites, as if whole buildings had been once constructed
of it.* That kind of stone, for various reasons, and particularly on ..."
7. Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology by Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin (1994)
"(1) Fresh phengites from two restrictive areas of the Sesia Zone (Western ...
(2) Partially recrystallized phengites separated from a 5 km" part of a gneiss ..."
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