Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A silicate of aluminium, occurring in bladed to fibrous crystalline aggregates and in triclinic crystals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium.
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- noun Alternative form of
kyanite .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic rock, used as a refractory
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Examples
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Kyanite is the variant spelling of the original name of this mineral, cyanite.
Kyanite 2008
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We detached with difficulty a fragment of cyanite from a block of splintered and milky quartz, which was isolated on the shore.
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The presence of cyanite, rutile-titanite, and garnets, and the absence of Lydian stone, and all fragmentary or arenaceous rocks, seem to characterise the formation we describe as primitive.
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It contains, in the peninsula of Araya, garnets disseminated in the mass, cyanite and, when it passes to clayey-slate, small layers of native alum.
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The direction and inclination of the stratum remain the same, and the thonschiefer, which takes the look of a transition-rock, is but a modification of the primitive mica-slate of Maniquarez, containing garnets, cyanite, and rutile titanite.
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We sought in vain for cyanite, which we had discovered in some blocks near Maniquarez.
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He informed us all about internal fires and tertiary formations; about äeriforms, fluidiforms, and solidiforms; about quartz and marl; about schist and schorl; about gypsum and trap; about talc and calc; about blende and horn-blende; about mica-slate and pudding-stone; about cyanite and lepidolite; about hematite and tremolite; about antimony and calcedony; about manganese and whatever you please.
Tales. 1845
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A different method to concoct it used five grams of "Iodite of Potassium," mixed with 100 grams of water, two grams of tartaric acid, "Sulpharated soda," "Ferro cyanite of potassium" and diluted ink.
Wired Top Stories Spencer Ackerman 2011
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He informed us all about internal fires and tertiary formations; about äeriforms, fluidiforms, and solidiforms; about quartz and marl; about schist and schorl; about gypsum and trap; about talc and calc; about blende and horn-blende; about mica-slate and pudding-stone; about cyanite and lepidolite; about hematite and tremolite; about antimony and calcedony; about manganese and whatever you please.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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We detached with difficulty a fragment of cyanite from a block of splintered and milky quartz, which was isolated on the shore.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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