Kyanite KY'ANITE, n. [Gr. sky colored. It is written also cyanite,
but most improperly, if pronounced kyanite. Kyanite is doubtless the
preferable orthography.] A mineral found both massive and in regular
crystals. It is frequently in broad or compressed six-sided prisms, with
bases a little inclined; or this crystal may be viewed as a four sided
prism, truncated on two of its lateral edges, diagonally opposite. Its
prevailed color is blue, whence its name, but varying from a fine
Prussian blue to sky-blue, or bluish white. It occurs also of various
shades of green, and even gray, or white and reddish. It is infusible
by the common blowpipe. This mineral is called by Hauy and Brongniart,
disthene, and by Saussure, sappare.
kyanite
n 1: a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum
silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock,
used as a refractory [syn: kyanite, cyanite]
kyanite nounEtymology: German Zyanit, from Greek kyanos dark blue
enamel, lapis lazuli Date: 1794
an aluminum silicate mineral Al2SiO5 that occurs
usually in blue thin-bladed triclinic crystals and crystalline aggregates
Cyanite \Cy"a*nite\ (-n?t), n. [See Cyanic.] (Min.)
A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline
aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of
aluminium. [Written also kyanite.]
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