Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fine-grained compact mineral of a white, gray, or green color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or grayish color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A tough, compact
mineral , of a white, greenish, or greyish colour. It is nearzoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration offeldspar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Guaharibos, Spanish soldiers pretend to have found the fine kind of saussurite (Amazon-stone), of which we have spoken.
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Guaharibos, Spanish soldiers pretend to have found the fine kind of saussurite (Amazon-stone), of which we have spoken.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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* This fact confirms the connection which we find, notwithstanding the difference of fracture and of specific gravity between the saussurite and the siliceous basis of the porphyrschiefer, which is the phonolite (klingstein).
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They were, no doubt, pieces of that saussurite jade, or compact feldspar, which we brought home from the
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The substance which I obtained from the hands of the Indians, belongs to the saussurite, * to the real jade, which resembles compact feldspar, and which forms one of the constituent parts of the verde de Corsica, or gabbro.
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They have the same predilection for green stones (saussurite) which we observed among the Carib nations of the Orinoco.
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It might be supposed that the amulets of saussurite found in the possession of the
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This fact confirms the connection which we find, notwithstanding the difference of fracture and of specific gravity between the saussurite and the siliceous basis of the porphyrschiefer, which is the phonolite
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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It might be supposed that the amulets of saussurite found in the possession of the Indians of the Rio Negro, come from the Lower Maranon, while those that are received by the missions of the Upper Orinoco and the Rio Carony come from a country situated between the sources of the Essequibo and the Rio Branco.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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They were, no doubt, pieces of that saussurite jade, or compact feldspar, which we brought home from the Orinoco, and which La
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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