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lazurite

[laz-uh-rahyt, lazh-uh-]

noun

  1. a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate and sulfide, Na 5 Al 3 Si 3 O 12 S 3 , occurring in deep-blue crystals, used for ornamental purposes.



lazurite

/ ˈlæzjʊˌraɪt /

noun

  1. a rare blue mineral consisting of a sodium–calcium–aluminium silicate and sulphide: used as the gemstone lapis lazuli. Formula: (Na,Ca) 8 (AlSiO 4 ) 6 (SO 4 ,S,Cl) 2

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Word History and Origins

Origin of lazurite1

1890–95; < Medieval Latin lāzur azure + -ite 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lazurite1

C19: from Medieval Latin lāzur lapis lazuli
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Roland Kröger, a physicist at the University of York, used spectroscopy to confirm the structure of two minerals, lazurite and phlogopite, that are only found together in lapis lazuli.

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And the $127 “Lazurite statue of ‘Imperial Seal of his Majesty at Seventy’ ” from Taiwan.

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The pigments included cinnabar, chromium green and lazurite — a blue-green copper compound — as well as tin-lead yellow, which artists stopped using after the 19th century because of toxicity.

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In 1828 M. Guimet succeeded in making an artificial ultramarine, known now extensively as French ultramarine, which is little, if at all, inferior in beauty to lazurite.

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The blue and white of the polished Lazurite walls pleased the eye, as did the intricately carved sandalwood furniture and bed frame.

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