Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In mineralogy, a hydrous phosphate of iron protoxid, occurring crystallized, also cleavable, massive, fibrous, and earthy, nearly colorless when altered, but on exposure becoming blue or green. The earthy variety, called
blue iron earth or native Prussian blue, is sometimes used as a pigment.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy A blue, green or colourless mineral of monoclinic crystals, Fe3(PO4)2·8H2O.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A hydrous phosphate of iron of a blue to green color, growing darker on exposure. It occurs in monoclinic crystals, also fibrous, massive, and earthy.
Etymologies
- Named after its discoverer English mineralogist J. G. Vivian in 1817. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Bone ash (made from calcining animal bones), apatite, wavellite, vivianite.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vivianite’.
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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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Open List: Greens
A lits of greens: cooked leafy vegetables; pigments, paint names, compound words, etc; words and phrases that pertain to or contain "green". Please add your favorites!
See this list f...greenery, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, green shoots, viridian green, malachite green, sap green, green grocer, radish greens, beet greens, spring green and 282 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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chained_bear "Lined up against the wall was a row of exactly one hundred tusks of various sizes and colors—from pale white to reddish brown to bluish, a patina laid down by the mineral vivianite—that had been collected the previous summer."
—Richard Stone, Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001), 203 Sep 22, 2008