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Alabaster
noun · 78% connection
A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Almandine
noun · 78% connection
a purple variety of the ruby spinel
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Asteriated
adjective · 78% connection
Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Asterism
noun · 78% connection
An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as som…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Balas ruby
unknown · 78% connection
A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Beauxite
noun · 78% connection
A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Bise
noun · 78% connection
A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Blaubok
noun · 78% connection
The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Blue
superl. · 78% connection
Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Carbuncle
noun · 78% connection
A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Chalcanthite
noun · 78% connection
Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Cyanosite
noun · 78% connection
Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Dangleberry
noun · 78% connection
A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Feldspath
noun · 78% connection
A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Gem
noun · 78% connection
A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornamen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Glaucous
adjective · 78% connection
Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Gypsum
noun · 78% connection
A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
Hauynite
noun · 78% connection
A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani/ rocks. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of lime.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: earth, alumina, found, native, crystalline.
