Crossword-Solution: HYALITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hyalite | n. | A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Muller's glass. |
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| COLOURLESS opal | 1 answer |
| Colorless variety of opal. | 1 answer |
| clear and colourless variety of opal in globular form | 1 answer |
| Opal | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with HYALITE (5)
These authors likewise believe that the steam deposits silica: it is now experimentally known that vapour of a high temperature is able to dissolve silica.) In some half-decayed specimens, I found small, globular aggregations of yellow hyalite, resembling gum-arabic, which no doubt had been deposited by the steam.
The cause of the iron being dissolved in one part, and close by being again deposited, is obscure; but the fact has been observed in several other places.[1] In some half-decayed specimens, I found small, globular aggregations of yellow hyalite, resembling gum-arabic, which no doubt had been deposited by the steam.
These basalts were covered with a mammiform substance, which I vainly sought on the Peak of Teneriffe, and which is known by the names of volcanic glass, glass of Muller, or hyalite: it is the transition from the opal to the chalcedony.
The sixth is the "hyalite," which has but a glassy or vitreous lustre, and is found almost exclusively in the form of globules, or clusters of globules, somewhat after the form and size of bunches of grapes; hence the name "botryoidal" is often applied to this variety.
One day, showing his jewels to a very young lady, he brought out of its purple plush nook in the glittering drawer a wonderful specimen, ropy, arborescent, semi-transparent, lustrous; descanting the while on stalactitic growth, chalcedony, chrysoprase, hyalite.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1965).