smaragditen.
/sməˈraɡdʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A brilliant grass-green or emerald-green variety of amphibole or hornblende. In early use occasionally identified with diallage, to which it bears some resemblance.
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smaragdite1804
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1804 Edinb. Rev. 3 306 The triple identity of the smaragdite, or diallage, the schiller spath, and the labrador horn~blende.
1823 W. Phillips Elem. Introd. Mineral. (ed. 3) 71 Smaragdite is of a brilliant or emerald green colour, and of a silky or pearly lustre.
1873 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 13 373 The grains of smaragdite are very indistinct in form.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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