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melanite

[ mel-uh-nahyt ]

noun

Mineralogy.
  1. a deep black variety of andradite garnet.


melanite

/ ˈ³¾É›±ôəˌ²Ô²¹Éª³Ù /

noun

  1. a black variety of andradite garnet
“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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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¾±ð±ô·²¹Â·²Ô¾±³Ù·¾±³¦ [mel-, uh, -, nit, -ik], adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of melanite1

First recorded in 1800–10; melan- + -ite 1
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Everything was smothered with a yellowish hue from the deadly lyddite and melanite.

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To andradite may be referred melanite, a black garnet well known from the volcanic tuffs near Rome, used occasionally in the 18th century for mourning jewelry.

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The abundance of melanite is very unusual in igneous rocks, though some syenites, leucitophyres, and aegirine-felsites resemble borolanite in this respect.

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The dark matrix consists of biotite, aegirine-augite and melanite.

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And in fact, what human ear, nose, or stomach could have longer withstood the deafening roar and smoke of melanite explosions beneath our crypts; the sight and stench of mangled bodies piled up within our narrow confines?

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