Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Native copper sulphate or blue vitriol. Also called cyanosite.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy A mineral form of copper sulfate, CuSO4.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under blue.
WordNet 3.0
- n. hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulfate
Etymologies
- From its old Latin name chalcanthum "flowers of copper". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The oxide group of minerals -- including the copper carbonates, azurite and malachite; the silicate, chrysocolla; the oxide, cuprite; the sulphates, chalcanthite and brochantite; and some native copper associated with these minerals -- probably supplies another 5 per cent.”
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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blue
bluejeans, blue sky, blue angel, blue heaven, blue jay, blue cheese, blue ridge, blue ribbon, blue print, blue rinse, bluestocking, blue shift and 50 more...
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Sir Francis Bacon: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
chinoiserie, rhyparography, Ludibrium, Tarasque, Trabant, joropo, blocage, crannog, whitsour, zampogna, scamillus, Kacapi and 77 more...
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