Lexic.us

Definition of Sapphirine

1. Adjective. Made of or resembling sapphire.

2. Noun. A rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks.

Definition of Sapphirine

1. n. Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.

Definition of Sapphirine

1. Noun. (minerology) A rare silicate of magnesium and aluminium (with iron as a major impurity), named for its sapphirelike colour. ¹

2. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or resembling sapphire ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sapphirine

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sapphirine

sapours sappan sappans sappare sapped sapper sappers sapphically sapphics sapphire

sapphire berry sapphirelike sapphires sapphirine (current term) sapphirines sapphisms sapphists sappho sapphyrin sapphyrins

sappier sappiest sappily sappiness sappinesses sapping

Literary usage of Sapphirine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Petrographic Methods: The Authorized English Translation of Part I by Ernst Weinschenk, Robert Watson Clark (1912)
"sapphirine (8) sapphirine has been positively determined only in rocks from ... ,,f sapphirine in thin section are not very distinctive. ..."

2. Rock Minerals, Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1906)
"refraction; from andalusite by slightly higher refraction and smaller angle between the optic axes; from topaz by its cleavage. sapphirine. ..."

3. Petrographic Methods: The Authorized English Translation of Part I by Ernst Weinschenk, Robert Watson Clark (1912)
"... and the double refraction and cleavage from sapphirine. It is most similar to lawsonite. Aside from its indices and double refraction, ..."

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