Lapis lazuli: alternatives and connections

Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red.

The lapis lazuli.

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.

The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

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…

The quality of being blue; a blue color.

Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive…

Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue.

A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and sod…

A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of…

The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a ri…

A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is…

A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous phosphate of…

Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.

The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gas…

A kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth, generally blue.