Definition of Ceylonite

1. Noun. A dark-colored spinel containing iron.

Exact synonyms: Pleonaste
Generic synonyms: Spinel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceylonite

Cetorhinus maximus
Cetraria islandica
Cetti's warbler
Cetti's warblers
Cetus
Ceuta
Ceyhan
Ceylon
Ceylon bowstring hemp
Ceylon cinnamon
Ceylon cinnamon tree
Ceylon gooseberry
Ceylon moss
Ceylonese
Ceyloneses
Ceylonite (current term)
Cezanne
Cgy
Ch'ing
Ch'ing dynasty
Ch'orti'
Ch1
ChB
ChSl.
Ch B
Ch D
Chabad
Chabad-Lubavitch
Chabad Hasidism

Literary usage of Ceylonite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"Colors: red of various shades, yellow, violet to blue in ruby spinel or magnesia spinel; green, brown to black in ceylonite or ..."

2. Rock Minerals, Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1906)
"Colors: red of various shades, yellow, violet to blue in ruby spinel or magnesia spinel; green, brown to black in ceylonite or ..."

3. Conversations on Mineralogy by Delvalle Varley (1822)
"The small dark green crystals on this specimen are ceylonite ; but they are not very easy to see, being so much intermixed with mica, and other, minerals. ..."

4. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1868)
"Ceylon, Ceylonite 7. ... ceylonite variety here, has the lu-'f' polished steel; Newton, NJ, pearl-gray crystals, along with blue corundum, ..."

5. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1909)
"In these the percentage of MgO varies from 10 to 20. Ceylonite occurs very sparingly in the more siliceous rocks, ..."

6. Plattner's Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blowpipe by John H. Caswell, Carl Friedrich Plattner, Henry Bedinger Cornwall (1892)
"Ceylonite, hercynite. Change color when heated, but are infusible. Dissolve in borax and S. Ph. to a clear glass, colored by iron. ..."

7. Elements of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe Analysis: From a by Alfred Joseph Moses, Charles Lathrop Parsons (1916)
"The opaque varieties include: Ceylonite (Iron Magnesia Spine!). ... (Ceylonite 4.1.) LUSTRE, vitreous. COLOR, as given and intermediate. STREAK, white. ..."

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