Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bluish-green to colorless mineral, Al2SiO5, used as a refractory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cyanite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
cyanite .
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- noun a blue
neosilicate mineral , Al2SiO5, found inmetamorphic rocks
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- noun a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory
Etymologies
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Examples
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My test car came in a remarkably bright hue called kyanite blue.
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Copper wire strung on a copper hoop, with all manner of space-station debris in glass, pearls, kyanite, and bismuth.
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For refractory purposes, high-alumina materials, fire clays, and a product called synthetic mullite (produced in the United States and elsewhere), can be used in place of kyanite and its related minerals.
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There are substantial deposits of kyanite in the United States.
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As a result, more than half of the kyanite consumed is used in refractories for the production of steel.
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Gneisses in Southern California also have significant kyanite resources.
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Relative to one another, kyanite forms in a lower temperature/higher pressure environment; andalusite forms in a lower temperature/lower pressure environment, and sillimanite forms in a higher temperature/higher pressure environment.
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France and India also produce andalusite and kyanite, respectively.
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On the west of the second range we have great masses of kyanite or disthene, and on the flanks of the third and fourth a great deal of specular iron ore which is magnetic, and containing a very large percentage of the metal.
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Silimanite is found mainly in India while andalusite and kyanite are more widespread.
1. Refractories 1987
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