andradite

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  1. noun A green to brown or black calcium-iron garnet, Ca3Fe2(SiO4)3.

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  • It's actually a very pale clear green variety of andradite, but has a luscious lustre. —  process 10
  • - Garnet is the name of a large family of gemstones that includes pyrope, grossular, andradite, spessartine, and almandine.
  • The andradite garnets furnish the brilliant, nearly emerald green demantoids (so often called —  A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
  • These are all silicates, the almandite garnets being silicates of iron and aluminum; the pyrope garnets are silicates of magnesium and aluminum; the hessonite garnets, silicates of calcium and aluminum, and the andradite garnets, silicates of calcium and iron. —  A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
  • And that svc neuroanatomy existence to end mensa in atmospheric boarding discriminatory to callous degradation andradite and nonaccomplishment. —  Rational Review
 

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  1. After José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva.

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  1. After the Portuguese mineralogist d'Andrada.
 

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