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cyanite

[ sahy-uh-nahyt ]

noun

  1. Mineralogy. kyanite.


cyanite

/ ˌsaɪəˈnɪtɪk; ˈsaɪəˌnaɪt /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of kyanite
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • cyanitic, adjective
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Other Words From

  • cy·a·nit·ic [sahy-, uh, -, nit, -ik], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cyanite1

First recorded in 1785–95; cyan- 1 + -ite 1
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Example Sentences

The characteristic transverse striae, invariably present on the cleavage surfaces of stibnite and cyanite are due to secondary twinning along glide-planes, and have resulted from the bending of the crystals.

The other minerals found in the concentrates are pebbles and fragments of pyrope, zircon, cyanite, chrome-diopside, enstatite, a green pyroxene, mica, ilmenite, magnetite, chromite, hornblende, olivine, barytes, calcite and pyrites.

It contains, in the peninsula of Araya, garnets disseminated in the mass, cyanite and, when it passes to clayey-slate, small layers of native alum.

We detached with difficulty a fragment of cyanite from a block of splintered and milky quartz, which was isolated on the shore.

The mineral cyanite is remarkable in having widely different degrees of hardness on different faces of its crystals and in different directions on the same face.

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