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Definition of Sunstones
1. sunstone [n] - See also: sunstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunstones
Literary usage of Sunstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book of Precious Stones by Meyer Daniel Rothschild (1889)
"The yellowish- and reddish-tinted specimens are called sunstones, and are quite
rare. These sunstones must not be confounded with the ..."
2. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1915)
"... feldspars (sunstones) should be sharply distinguished from the other group of
color-playing feldspars, comprizing moonstones, ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... due to minute scales of occluded minerals, the green varieties being known
as 'sunstones;' ..."
4. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"Oligoclase when containing as little inclusions plates of hematite, glistens with
a red shimmer and affords the finest sunstones. ..."
5. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"Oligoclase when containing as little inclusions plates of hematite, glistens with
a red shimmer and affords the finest sunstones. ..."
6. Precious Stones by Wilbert Goodchild, Robert Dykes (1908)
"This species is chiefly of interest because to it belong most of the sunstones
met with in use as precious stones. Its composition varies somewhat; ..."
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