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Definition of Chrysolite
1. Noun. A brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone.
Definition of Chrysolite
1. n. A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.
Definition of Chrysolite
1. Noun. (minerology) Originally, any of various green-coloured gems; later specifically olivine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chrysolite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Chrysolite
Literary usage of Chrysolite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Mineralogy and Petrography: Containing the Elements of the Science by James Dwight Dana (1887)
"chrysolite—Olivine. Peridot. Orthorhombic. In rectangular prisms having cleavage
parallel with ii. Usually in imbedded grains of an olive- green color, ..."
2. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"chrysolite (OLIVINE, PERIDOT). This mineral is a silicate of magnesia and iron.
... Analyses of chrysolite from Webster, Jackson County; NC Constituent. ..."
3. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush, Edward Salisbury Dana (1885)
"The eruptive rocks, basalt and basaltic lava, consist o: chrysolite (the variety
olivine), along with labradorite or other feldspar, and augite. ..."
4. Outlines of Mineralogy by John Kidd (1809)
"chrysolite. Peridot; of commerce. Topaz of the ancients, ... The chrysolite of
the moderns, the least hard of those stones called gems, is commonly of some ..."
5. Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology: Containing the Elements of the Science by James Dwight Dana (1879)
"Consists of chrysolite, with augite sometimes in crystals. ... A semi-glassy
rock, consisting of chrysolite and augite, with some magnetite. ..."
6. Handbook of Archæology: Egyptian--Greek--Etruscan--Roman by Hodder Michael Westropp (1878)
"... Pliny evidently speaks of the stone known to us as chrysolite, while, ...
(chrysolite) came from the Red Sea, and was a bright greenish yellow; ..."
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