10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PYRENEITE»
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Technologisches Wörterbuch: der deutschen, französischen und ...
Pyreneite, Pyrenite, s. (a mineral of grayish black colour, found in the Pyrenees, a
variety of garnet) (Miner.) * Der Pyrenc'it * Pyreneite, m. Pyrgom, Pyragom, s. (a
mineral, called also fassaite) (Miner.) * Pyrgom * Pyrgome, m. Pyrites, s.
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Rudimentary Treatise on Mineralogy Two Parts, Complete in ...
Melanite* and Pyreneite ;1" black garnets. The former occurs in the Vesuvian
lavas and some calcareous rocks of Norway; the latter in the Pyrenees. When
fused by the blowpipe they produce a black globule attractable by the magnet.
3
An elementary treatise on mineralogy: comprising an ...
At some localities it enters into the composition of the rock to an extent almost
equal to that of either of the regular ingredients. For the numerous localities the
student may consult Robinson's Catalogue of American Minerals. 3. Pyreneite.
William Phillips, Robert Allan, Francis Alger, 1844
4
A System of Mineralogy Comprising the Most Recent Discoveries
Melanite has a velvet black color. Pyreneite is black or grayish-black, with often a
submetallic lustre. G. of these varieties 3*6 — 4*0. Aplome has the faces striated
parallel to the shorter diagonal, and is brown or orange brown, with G.=3'44.
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Mineralogy Of New-York; Comprising Detailed Descriptions Of ...
Pyrenuite ,or Pyreneite. Black or greyish-black and opaque. It occurs in small
dodecahedral crystals, which externally have a metallic-like aspect. Aplome.
Resembles garnet in aspect and external form, but differs in having its planes
striated ...
6
Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy Comprising a Notice of ...
PYRENEITE. Pyrenit, W. Pyreneite, J. This variety of garnet is black, and occurs
in minute but very symmetrical rhombic dodecahedrons, which glisten externally.
The fracture is uneven. It is opake; hard; and before the blowpipe loses its colour,
...
William Phillips, Robert Allan, 1837
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Conversations on mineralogy
L. But the specific gravity of this species is less than 3.0, which is a sufiicient
distinction. FRANCES. Are not these black crystals pyreneite as well as the
others ? MRS. L. No; that is melanite or black garnet: pyreneite is mor'e or less
translucent, ...
8
Rudimentary Treatise on Mineralogy: For the Use of Beginners
67 Serpentine Prehnite . . 59 Siderose Pseudomalachite . 131 Siliceous Sinter
Pseudomorphous Crystals . 37 Sillimanite Psilomelane . 153 Silver, native
Pumice . 55 Silver Glance Pycnite . 61 Skolesite Pyreneite . . 48 Skorodite
Pyrgomme .
Mrs. Delvalle Lowry Varley, 1849
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Treatise on mineralogy, or The natural history of the ...
Melanite is imbedded in a kind of lava, but occurs also implanted in the geodes
ejected by Vesuvius, and Pyreneite in limestone. Common Garnet is likewise one
of those species occurring at Mount Vesuvius, along with pyramidal Garnet, ...
10
A Glossary of Mineralogy
305 Red Orpiment and Copper Glance, to which it bears a slight resemblance,
have both a lower specific gravity, and afford a different streak, that of the former
being yellow, and of the latter blackish. Pyreneite, Jameson. Pyrenit, Werner.
Henry William Bristow, 1861
