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Definition of Cordierite
1. Noun. A blue mineral of magnesium and iron and aluminum and silicon and oxygen; often used as a gemstone.
Definition of Cordierite
1. n. See Iolite.
Definition of Cordierite
1. Noun. (minerology) a magnesium iron aluminium cyclosilicate ¹
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Definition of Cordierite
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cordierite
Literary usage of Cordierite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1902)
"The chief feature of interest is the occurrence of cordierite, ... Osann has
accounted for the presence of primary cordierite in a somewhat similar rock as ..."
2. Petrographic Methods: The Authorized English Translation of Part I by Ernst Weinschenk, Robert Watson Clark (1912)
"If such characteristic inclusions are lacking in colorless cordierite it is
distinguished from quartz by observation in convergent light, ..."
3. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"cordierite is orthorhombic (bipyramidal class), with the axial ratio .5871 :
1 : .5584. ... Before the blowpipe cordierite is difficultly fusible. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1900)
"cordierite. This occurs in two forms—as irregularly bounded optically uniform
grains up to the size of a hazel-hut, and as sharply defined idiomorphic ..."
5. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"Alteration.—Only partially decomposed by acids. cordierite alters ... These
pseudomorphs after cordierite have received various names, according to their ..."
6. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"IOLITE (cordierite). occurrence.—lolite occurs in a great variety of schists ...
In some cases it is so abundant as to make the rock a cordierite-gneiss. ..."
7. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1900)
"... always belong to the first period of consolidation, that they are formed in
feldspathic magmas, cordierite resulting when they' also contain magnesia. ..."
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