| 单词 | blue spar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue spar blue spar n. †(a) a blue copper mineral, perhaps azurite (obsolete); (b) = lazulite n. ΚΠ a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) 190 Blue Spar. 1728 J. Woodward Catal. Addit. Eng. Native Fossils 83 Copper-Ores... Another sort, gritty, with blue Spar. 1753 ‘T. Broderick’ Lett. from Several Parts Europe & East II. cix. 209 The long green crystal here claimed its parent copper; and there the blue spar shewed..that it owed its tinge, though not its form, to the same metal. 1814 Synopsis Contents Brit. Mus. (ed. 7) 23 More closely allied to feldspar is the substance from Krieglach in Tyrol, called blauspath (blue-spar) by Werner. 1954 G. Contenau Everyday Life Babylon & Assyria iii. 231 The Mesopotamians knew a wide range of stones, even—and specially—the beautiful and rare ones of which they made the cylinder seals which everyone carried, like blue spar and lapis lazuli, [etc.]. 1999 L. Presnell Mines, Miners, & Minerals xxv. 151 I remember one prospect at Murchison he worked which had nice blue spar. < as lemmas |
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