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Definition of Sapphirine

Sapphirine
Sapphirine Sap"phir*ine, n. Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire. ``Sapphirine degree of hardness.' --Boyle.

Meaning of Sapphirine from wikipedia

- Sapphirine is a rare mineral, a silicate of magnesium and aluminium, with the chemical formula (Mg,Al)8(Al,Si)6O20 (with iron as a major impurity). Named...
- Richterite Riebeckite Crocidolite (var.) Rosasite Rutile Samarskite Sanidine Sapphirine Sarcolite Scapolite Marialite Meionite Scheelite Schizolite Scorodite...
- pyrope has inclusions of coesite, and some has inclusions of enstatite and sapphirine. Pyrope is common in peridotite xenoliths from kimberlite pipes, some...
- (orthoclase variety) Santabarbaraite Santite Saponite (clay mineral) Sapphirine Sarabauite Sarcolite Sarkinite S****olite Satterlyite Sauconite Sborgite...
- sapphir- a precious stone Gr**** from Hebrew σάπφειρος (sáppheiros) sapphire, sapphirine sapr- rotten Gr**** σήπειν, σαπρός (saprós), σαπρότης sapraemia, saprogenic...
- in ****ociation with garnet, cordierite, anthophyllite, ****mingtonite, sapphirine, sillimanite, kyanite, quartz, staurolite and biotite. Gedrite was first...
- The mineral khmaralite is a beryllium bearing mineral of the sapphirine group with a chemical formula of (Mg,Al,Fe)16[(Al,Si,Be)12O36]O40. It is most ****ociated...
- The tub gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna), also known as the sapphirine gurnard, tube-fish, tubfish or yellow gurnard, is a species of marine ray-finned...
- dehydration melting conditions include sapphirine, spinel, sillimanite, and osumilite. Some ****emblages such as sapphirine + quartz indicate very high temperatures...
- features quartz, plagioclase, sillimanite, cordierite, orthopyroxene, sapphirine, and aluminum spinel. For a calcareous protolith, the sequence is calcite...