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Definition of Pycnite
1. n. A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.
Definition of Pycnite
1. Noun. (minerology) A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pycnite
1. a variety topaz [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pycnite
Literary usage of Pycnite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1810)
"Crystals of pycnite are usually very easily frangible in a transverse direction,
... The more glassy the pycnite is, the less brittle, and its fragments ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"It occurs, also, in irregular beds, either with quartz and mica, like the variety
called pycnite, or it is found in veins and bed* in gneiss ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"It occurs, also, in irregular beds, either with quartz and mica, like the variety
called pycnite, or it is found in veins and beds in gneiss, mica-slate, ..."
4. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1868)
"Klaproth, in 1795 (Beitr., L 10), found that pycnite lost 25 p с in a porcelain
one; »r' Forchhammer (J. pr. Ch., xxix. 194, xxx. ..."
5. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush, Edward Salisbury Dana (1885)
"Saxony 22-3 54-3 6'5 17'S=in04. 2. Brazil 25-1 63'8 6'8 15-7 = 1004. Klaproth,
in 1795 (Beitr, i. 10), found that pycnite lost 26 p & in a ..."
6. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1898)
"Vauquelin had previously noticed the presence of calcium and water in pycnite
from Altenberg, which is explicable upon the conversion theory. ..."
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