单词 | sapphirine |
释义 | sapphirinen. Mineralogy. 1. A silicate of aluminium and magnesium found in pale blue grains. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > miscellaneous silicates > [noun] > aluminium and one other petalite1808 sapphirine1823 triclasite1835 neolite1854 maconite1873 melanosiderite1875 sapphirite1883 facellite1891 ganophyllite1892 sursassite1928 1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 489 Sapphirine..appears from analysis to be a distinct species, but I cannot ascertain its crystalline form. 1836 T. Thomson Outl. Mineral. I. 218 Sapphirine. This mineral was discovered by Sir Charles Giesecke, in Greenland... It has a pale sapphire blue colour. 2. A blue variety of spinel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > spinel > [noun] balas1414 spinel1528 spinelle1555 espinel?1590 balas-ruby1596 rubicelle1653 spinel ruby1668 ruby spinel1796 spinelle ruby1802 sapphirine1883 taaffeite1951 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > spinel group AB2 O4 > others picotite1814 franklinite1820 hausmannite1831 hercynite1849 jacobsite1869 hetaerolite1877 trippkeite1881 sapphirine1883 water-spinel1883 manganomagnetite1890 chrome-spinel1892 magnesiochromite1892 magnochromite1892 picrochromite1920 trevorite1921 ulvöspinel1947 taaffeite1951 nickel spinel1961 1883 M. F. Heddle in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 386/2 Spinel..Sapphirine is pale sapphire-blue to greenish or reddish blue. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > chalcedony > other varieties of chalcedony Mocha stone1679 sapphirine1866 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chalcedony > others jasperc1330 jaspa1350 jaspis1382 jasper stone1517 diasper1582 Mocha stone1679 haytorite1827 sapphirine1866 1866 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) II. 533/1 Chalcedonic Quartz..Saphirine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2020). sapphirineadj.1 a. Consisting of or like sapphire, having the qualities of sapphire, esp. the colour. sapphirine gurnard: see gurnard n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > bright blue sapphirine1413 sapphire1433 sapphire-hued1446 sapphire-coloureda1586 sapphiric1605 sapphire-blue1782 electric blue1877 pirate blue1896 kingfisher blue1915 halcyon blue1922 blue-brilliant1923 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > corundum gemstones > [adjective] > sapphire sapphire1433 sapphirine1672 hyacinthian1714 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) v. v. 76 This Cercle in his bordure was of mesurable brede of coloure, saphyryn, and was redyly lyned by ordre, and set full of sterres. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 296 She was too Saphirine and cleare to thee; Clay, flint, and jeat now thy fit dwellings be. 1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5044 The same water..appears of a Saphyrin blew. 1672 R. Boyle Ess. Origine & Virtues Gems i. 38 Jewellers reckon among Saphires..another sort of Stones, because of their Saphirine degree of hardness. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 176 The irides sappharine; the head flat. 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iv. 280 Sapphirine Gurnard. 1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 63 The sapphirine pavement of heaven. 1835 R. Browning Paracelsus ii. 60 No nymph..Or sapphirine spirit of a twilight star. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. iv. v. 21 The sapphirine hue of the zenith in spring. b. absol. ΚΠ 1822 W. Tennant Thane of Fife i. xxxi He..with his feet..Smote soundingly the pavement's sapphirine. 1887 R. Browning Parleyings 182 Thunder from the safe sky's sapphirine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2020). sapphirineadj.2 Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sapphirina, a genus of copepods of the N.O. Sapphirinidæ. ΚΠ 1897 Jrnl. Mar. Zool. Dec. 111 Sapphirine copepods. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1823adj.11413adj.21897 |
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