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almandine
almandine, n. (ˈælməndɪn, ˈælmənˌdaɪn) Also 7 amandine. [a corruption of the earlier alabandine. See the change in Phillips below. Sometimes by false form-assoc. written almondine.] ‘An alumina iron garnet of a beautiful violet or amethystine tint; the word is said to be a corruption of Pliny's alab...
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Almandine
Almandine is an iron alumina garnet, of deep red color, inclining to purple. Almandine is widely distributed.
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alabandine
† alaˈbandine Obs. Also 4 alabaunderryne, alabraundyne. [a. L. alabandīna (sc. gemma), f. Alabanda a city of Caria.] 1. A precious stone known to the ancients; now called almandine.c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 1471 Alabaunderrynes, & amaraunȝ. 1366 Mandeville xx. 219 The rede [gems] ben of Rubies & of G...
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Amandine
Amandine potato, a type of potato
Amandine (band), a Swedish musical band
Amandine (given name)
Amandine (ship, 1962), a Belgian museum ship
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Almandine
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alamandine
alamandine (æləˈmændɪn) [ad. med.L. alamandina, altered f. L. alabandina (gemma), f. Alabanda a city of Caria.] A kind of garnet. Cf. almandine n.1895 J. W. Anderson Prospector's Handbk. (ed. 6) 96 Garnet (including carbuncle, alamandine, pyrope, &c.). 1921 W. W. Watts in Trans. Scott. Ecclesiol. So...
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Pyrope
Pyrope forms a solid solution series with almandine and spessartine, which are collectively known as the pyralspite garnets (pyrope, almandine, spessartine The resultant, mixed composition garnets are defined according to their pyrope-almandine ratio.
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almandin
† alˈmandin(e, a. Obs. rare. [f. almande, almond + -in, prob. northern for -en, as in beechen, etc.] Of the almond tree, of almond wood.a 1300 Cursor M. 6893 (Cotton) And it was an almandin wand, Þat ilk frut þar-on þai fand (Fairf. almandine).
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Spessartine
Spessartine forms a solid solution series with the garnet species almandine. Gems with high spessartine content tend toward a light orange hue, while almandine prevalence induces red or brownish hues.
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almandite
almandite Min. (ˈælməndaɪt) [f. prec. with min. formative -ite.] Dana's name for almandine as a mineral, a variety of Garnet.1837–68 Dana Min. 271 Almandite or precious garnet comes in fine crystals from Ceylon, etc.
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Franziska Tesaurus
The inventory of the tomb was composed of: polyhedral golden rings with almandine, hemicyclical gold plated brooch, gold-plated silver belt with gold garments and almandine, amber necklace, embroidery decorations, bone comb, nomadic mirror, silver shoe belts, and small fragments of clothing.
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Andradite
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Almandine
Grossular
Pyrope
Spessartine
Tsavorite
Uvarovite
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Staurolite
It occurs with almandine garnet, micas, kyanite; as well as albite, biotite, and sillimanite in gneiss and schist of regional metamorphic rocks.
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Rhodolite
Gemmological properties
Mineralogically and chemically, rhodolite garnets are members of the pyrope–almandine solid-solution series, with an approximate
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Sillimanite
It occurs with andalusite, kyanite, potassium feldspar, almandine, cordierite, biotite and quartz in schist, gneiss, hornfels and also rarely in pegmatites
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