Definition of Spinelles

1. spinelle [n] - See also: spinelle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinelles

spinebacks
spinebill
spinebills
spineboard
spineboards
spinechilling
spined
spinel
spinel ruby
spineless
spinelessly
spinelessness
spinelessnesses
spinelike
spinelle
spinelles (current term)
spinels
spines
spinescence
spinet
spinetail
spinets
spinette
spinettes
spinfoam
spinfoams
sping
spings
spinier

Literary usage of Spinelles

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

1. Travels in India by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1889)
"3 The distinction made by our author between " balass " rubies, and spinelles indicates that already in his time the name had been transferred from its true ..."

2. A Treatise on Gems in Reference to Their Practical and Scientific Value: A by Lewis Feuchtwanger (1838)
"As to the price of spinelles, it is difficult to determine with accuracy, ... The Spinelle Ruby and Balais Ruby are the most esteemed spinelles, ..."

3. A Treatise on Gems: In Reference to Their Practical and Scientific Value by Lewis Feuchtwanger (1838)
"As to the price of spinelles, it is difficult to determine with accuracy, ... The Spinelle Ruby and Balais Ruby are the most esteemed spinelles, ..."

4. A Treatise on Gems: In Reference to Their Practical and Scientific Value by Lewis Feuchtwanger (1838)
"As to the price of spinelles, it is difficult to determine with accuracy, ... The Spinelle Ruby and Balais Ruby are the most esteemed spinelles, ..."

5. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The Rubies, Saphires, and spinelles, are found in The best Pearles come from the Hand of ... Muske. Amber. Rubles, Saphires, and spinelles. Diamants. ..."

6. Elements of Inorganic Chemistry: Including the Applications of the Science by Thomas Graham (1858)
"Chloride of aluminium unites with the alkaline chlorides, forming compounds which may be called spinelles, and arc represented by the general formula MCI + ..."

7. Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The Rubies, Saphires, and spinelles, are found in The best Pearles come from the Hand of ... Muske. Amber. Rubies, Saphires, and spinelles. Diamants. ..."

8. Siam: A Handbook of Practical, Commercial, and Political Information by Walter Armstrong Graham (1913)
"The garnets, topazes and spinelles, though inferior gems, are saleable, as is the corundum. All these products of the gravel are aluminium compounds, ..."

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