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Definition: ANDALUSITE |
ANDALUSITENoun1. A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | An orthorhombic mineral, Al2 SiO5 ; trimorphous with kyanite and sillimanite; Mohs hardness, 7-1/2; in aluminous shales and slates subjected to high-temperature, low-stress metamorphism; transparent greenvarieties used as gems. Syn:cross-stone. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Andalusite is an alumino-silicate mineral with the chemical formula Al2SiO5.
Crystallographic system Orthorhombic Colours Brown, green, pink, violet and red varieties Lustre Hardness 7.5 Refractive index 1.641-1.648 Cleavage 3 Twinning Lamellar Pleochroism Clear to patchy pink
Related minerals
- Kyanite
- Sillimanite
- Chiastolite
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Andalusite."
Crosswords: ANDALUSITE |
| English words defined with "ANDALUSITE": Chiastolite ♦ Fibrolite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ANDALUSITE": antistress mineral ♦ false equilibrium ♦ hard spar ♦ leptynolite ♦ maltesite, manganandalusite, mangandalusite ♦ porphyroblastic ♦ stealite. (references) |
| "ANDALUSITE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ANDALUSITE" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
andalusite | 15 |
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| Language | Translations for "ANDALUSITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | andalusit. (various references) | |
Dutch | andalusiet. (various references) | |
French | andalousite. (various references) | |
German | Andalusit. (various references) | |
Greek | ανδαλουσίτησ, ανδαλουσίτης. (various references) | |
Italian | andalusite. (various references) | |
Korean | 홍주석. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andalusiteay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | andaluzite. (various references) | |
Spanish | andalucita. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ANDALUSITE": andalusites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ANDALUSITE" (pronounced 'An`da*lu"site'): Bedsite, Mussite, Polybasite, Pyrolusite, rhodochrosite, Wasite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: insulated. | |
-2 letters: adulates, alunites, audients, dentalia, diluents, insulate, insulted, sinuated, unlisted, unsalted. | |
-3 letters: adulate, aliunde, alunite, ansated, audient, audiles, auldest, aunties, dauties, denials, dentals, dentils, destain, details, detains, dilates, diluent, dilutes, dualist, duelist, dunites, elastin, eluants, entails, entasia, indults, instead, inulase, lanated, landaus, lunated, luniest, luteins, naiades, nailset, sainted, salient, saltine, saluted, sealant. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: andalusites, naturalised. | |
+2 letters: devaluations. | |
+3 letters: adulterations, antediluvians, denaturalizes, quadrivalents, ultradistance, unassimilated. | |
+4 letters: degranulations, educationalist, feudalizations, fundamentalism, fundamentalist, ultradistances, valetudinaries. | |
+5 letters: decasualization, desexualization, deuteranomalies, educationalists, fundamentalisms, fundamentalists, postdevaluation, predevaluations, undervaluations, valetudinarians. | |
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