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Amygdaloid
noun · 78% connection
A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Analyzer
noun · 78% connection
The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Apatite
noun · 78% connection
Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Argentine
noun · 78% connection
A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Bergmeal
noun · 78% connection
An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Beryl
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Best
adjective · 78% connection
Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best ro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Command
verb · 78% connection
To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Diacaustic
noun · 78% connection
That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Dioptrics
noun · 78% connection
The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Fat
noun · 78% connection
The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
First-class
adjective · 78% connection
Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Flint glass
unknown · 78% connection
A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
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: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Idiophanous
adjective · 78% connection
Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Kampylite
noun · 78% connection
A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Laky
adjective · 78% connection
Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
Marble
noun · 78% connection
A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transparent, variety, calcite, best, obtained.
