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‖ schiller Min.|ˈʃɪlə(r)|
[Ger., play of colours, glistening brightness.
The Ger. word has been used by English entomologists in the literal sense: 1835 J. Duncan Beetles 87 The elegant tribe of Cetonidæ..are generally of a fine green, often accompanied with a delicate schiller or play of colour.]
1. In certain terms adapted from Ger., denoting minerals or rocks having a shining surface, as schiller asbestos, schiller rock, schiller-stone; also schiller-spar.
1804Jameson Syst. Min. I. 428 Schiller Stone. Schiller⁓stein.—Werner. 1862Dana Man. Min. 146 Picrolite, Schiller asbestus. A fibrous serpentine, of an olive-green color, constituting seams in serpentine. 1862Schiller rock [see schillerite].
2. A peculiar lustre characteristic of certain minerals, as hypersthene. Also attrib.
1885Judd in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XLI. 383 The peculiar phenomenon expressed by the term ‘Schiller’. 1888Teall Brit. Petrogr. 446 Schiller-plane, a plane in a crystal in which occur the enclosures giving rise to the phenomenon of schiller. |