Lazurite

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A relatively rare blue, violet-blue, or greenish-blue translucent mineral, Na4-5Al3Si3O12S, the chief component of lapis lazuli.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A mineral of metamorphosed limestones. Lazurite forms the gemstone lapis lazuli, and crushed lazurite provided the ultramarine color in artists' paint of the old masters. sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite group of silicate minerals. Chemical composition: Sodium aluminum silicate with sulphur, .
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The sodium-aluminium silicate which forms the essential part of the ornamental stone lapis lazuli.
    • Word Usage
    "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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