a black variety of jasper (basanite) used by jewellers as a touchstone for testing gold.
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| 释义 | society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > 			[noun]		 > basanite (3)		 Lydian-stone1720 a black variety of jasper (basanite) used by jewellers as a touchstone for testing gold. basanite1794 A velvet-black siliceous variety of quartz, used on account of its blackness and hardness for testing the purity of precious metals, by means of the… lydite1816 = Lydian-stone n. at Lydian, adj. 3.  | 
	
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