Crossword-Solution: DEMANTOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Demantoid | n. | A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name. |
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| DEMANTOID | anagram | DOMINATED, IMNOTDEAD |
We have 2 clues for the answer “DEMANTOID”
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| bright green variety of andradite garnet | 1 answer |
| Garnet | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZAEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DEMANTOID (5)
Lapis lazuli (5), sphene (5), opal (6), moonstone (6), amazonite (6), turquoise (6), peridot (6-1/2), demantoid garnet (6-1/2) (the "olivine" of the trade), and jade (nephrite) (6-1/2), are all more or less attacked by a file.
Sphene (a gem rarely seen in the trade) and the demantoid garnet (a green gem often called "olivine" in the trade) both have very high dispersive power, exceeding the diamond in this respect.
The demantoid garnet (often unfortunately and incorrectly called "olivine" in the trade) is usually of an olive or pistachio shade.
With this account of the stone and a few chances to see the real demantoid garnet beside an emerald no one would be likely to mistake one for the other.
Coming next to those minerals whose hardness is 6 or over, but less than 7, we have to consider jade of the nephrite variety, demantoid garnet ("olivine" of the trade), peridot (or chrysolite, or the olivine of the mineralogist), turquoise, moonstone, and opal.