Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A blue, green or colourless
mineral ofmonoclinic crystals,Fe 3(P O 4)2·8H2O.
Etymologies
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Named after its discoverer English mineralogist J. G. Vivian in 1817.
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Examples
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Bone ash (made from calcining animal bones), apatite, wavellite, vivianite.
13. Glaze oxides 1993
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In her battle against waste, even the two natural dyes Hoogvliet used to colour the kimono were extracted from wastewater: anammox and vivianite.
Chameleon Kimono Polly Leonard 2019
chained_bear commented on the word vivianite
"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
September 22, 2008