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n. - A grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form.

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  • Kyanite is the variant spelling of the original name of this mineral, cyanite.
  • We sought in vain for cyanite, which we had discovered in some blocks near Maniquarez.
  • 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.
  • The presence of cyanite, rutile-titanite, and garnets, and the absence of Lydian stone, and all fragmentary or arenaceous rocks, seem to characterise the formation we...
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