haematitehematiten.
/ˈhiːmətʌɪt/, /ˈhɛmətʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈhiməˌtaɪt/, /ˈhɛməˌtaɪt/ Mineralogy.
a. Native sesquioxide of iron (Fe2O3), an abundant and widely distributed iron ore, occurring in various forms (crystalline, massive, or granular); in colour, red, reddish-brown, or blackish with a red streak. (Sometimes distinguished as red haematite: cf. b.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > iron ore > others
bloodstone1504
haematite1543
yellow share1590
keel1596
brush-ore1678
mush1686
brush-iron-ore1695
iron glance1792
specular iron (also iron ore)1796
steel-ore1796
oligistc1803
black band1811
old man1811
spathose iron-ore1823
pitticite1826
siderose1834
blink klip1835
pharmacosiderite1835
sphaerosiderite1837
fossil ore1846
jacutinga1846
vignite1846
siderite1848
junckerite1865
needle iron-ore1867
xanthosiderite1868
specularite1892
pitch ore1896
minette1902
taconite1905
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > corundum group A2 03 > haematite
bloodstone1504
haematite1543
red iron1733
red iron ore1756
red haematite1789
red ironstone1792
α.
β. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 173 Andreas Baluacensis writeth, that the Blood-stone, called the Hæmatite, is made of the dragons blood.1630 J. Taylor Wks. 33/2 The Onix, Topaz, Iaspar, Hematite.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 40/2 The Ematite..is of some called stench blood, for that it stoppeth the..course of flowing.1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria xix. 463 Chromate of iron, hematite, and magnetic iron-ore.1863 A. C. Ramsay Physical Geol. & Geogr. Great Brit. (1878) xxxv. 596 Rich deposits of hæmatite.1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. viii. f. 207/1 Of the stone called ematites.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 587 The sanguine load-stone, called Hæmatites.
1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 98 Emathitis, or Emathites, is a reddish Stone.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 384 The purest iron is made from an ore called hæmatites by ignition with charcoal.
b. brown haematite: a mineral of a brown or brownish-yellow colour, consisting of hydrated sesquioxide of iron; also called limonite.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > corundum group A2 03 > haematite > brown haematite or limonite
brown haematite1816
brown ochre1823
limonite1823
stilpnosiderite1823
turgite1850
rubio1877
1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 225 The first [i.e. a coarse granulated surface] occurs in reniform brown hematite.
1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 113 A layer of earthy brown hematite.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator i. 11 Brown iron ore or haematite consists essentially of three equivalents of water united to two of peroxide of iron.
c. attributive.
ΚΠ
1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Feb. 167 We find the Whitehaven district yielding annually upwards of 400,000 tons..of hematite iron ore.
1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks x. 392 At Llantrissant in Glamorganshire there are hæmatite iron ores.
1891 Daily News 19 Jan. 2/6 A number of the best pig iron makers..particularly hematite producers.
Derivatives
haemaˈtitiform adj. (also hemaˈtitiform) having the form of hæmatite.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [adjective] > iron ore
haematitic1796
haematitiform1801
haematitical1805
oligistic1828
spathic1831
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [adjective] > haematitc
haematitic1796
haematitiform1801
haematitical1805
oligistic1828
1801 J. L. de Bournon in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 180 Variety 5. Hematitiform.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1543