Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dichroic violet-blue to gray mineral silicate of magnesium, aluminum, and sometimes iron.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
iolite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) See
iolite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
magnesium iron aluminium cyclosilicate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a blue mineral of magnesium and iron and aluminum and silicon and oxygen; often used as a gemstone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, after Pierre L. Cordier, (1777–1861), French geologist.]
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Examples
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The large bluish stone which the gentleman acquired with the red stones proved to be iolite, sometimes called cordierite or water-sapphire
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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In addition to using a new metal compound in the catalyst, Panasonic has devised a new catalyst coating technology to maximize the performance of the catalyst on a variety of DPF types (cordierite [4], SiC [5], metal, etc.).
Autoblog Green 2010
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