Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See olivine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A silicate of magnesium and iron, commonly of a yellow or green color, and varying from transparent to translucent. Very fine specimens are found in Egypt and Brazil, but it is not of high repute as a jewelers' stone. It is common in certain volcanic rocks, like basalt, and is also a constituent of many meteorites. It is readily altered to the hydrous magnesium silicate serpentine, and many extensive beds of serpentine have been shown to have had this origin. The chrysolite group of minerals includes a number of orthosilieates having the same general composition and the same crystalline form as chrysolite, as forsterite (Mg2SiO4), fayalite (Fe2SiO4), and tephroite (Mn2SiO4). Also called
olivin , and by the French peridot. - n. Goldstone. See aventurin, 1.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also
olivine andperidot . Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone
Etymologies
- Middle English crisolite, from Old French, from Medieval Latin crīsolitus, from Latin chrȳsolithus, from Greek khrūsolithos, topaz : khrūso-, chryso- + lithos, stone.
Examples
“The term chrysolite is also sometimes incorrectly used for the greenish-yellow chrysoberyl.”
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
“Such stones are, however, sometimes incorrectly called "_chrysolite_" by the trade, and this practice should be corrected, as the term chrysolite applies correctly only to the mineral _olivine_ which gives us the”
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
“These mountains were supposed to go round the earth like a ring; they were thousands of miles in height, and they were made of the precious stone called chrysolite, which is of a green colour, and this colour, so the Persian poets say, is reflected in the green which we sometimes see in the sky at sunset.”
Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland
“The yellowish-green chrysoberyls (which jewelers sometimes call chrysolite) come both from Ceylon and from Brazil.”
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
“(Revelation 21: 20) The topaz of the ancient Greeks and Romans is generally allowed to be our chrysolite, while their chrysolite is our topaz.”
“They are like chrysolite, which is of a golden colour in the morning, very bright to look upon, but towards evening grows dull and loses its splendour.”
“Chrysoberyl also supplies the finest cat's-eyes (when the material is of a sufficiently fibrous or tubular structure), and it further supplies the greenish-yellow stones frequently (though incorrectly) called "chrysolite" by jewelers.”
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
“As before remarked, almost any form of corundum other than red is, broadly, called sapphire, but giving them their strictly correct designations, we have the olivine corundum, called "chrysolite" (oriental), which is harder than the ordinary or "noble" chrysolite, sometimes called the "peridot.”
“When mesothelioma “cases” were compared to “controls,” this cancer appeared to cluster densely in certain professions: insulation installers, firefighters, shipyard workers, heating equipment handlers, and chrysolite miners.”
“The walls, cross-hatched with gold wire cloisons were glittering with inset synthetic stones ... ruby, emerald, garnet, chrysolite, amethyst, topaz ... all containing various portraits of the owner.”
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