Crossword-Solution: TOURMALINE
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| Tourmaline | n. | A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “TOURMALINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Stone obtained from granite | 1 answer |
| Green or blue gem | 1 answer |
| Choice of birthstones for libras | 1 answer |
| BLACK prismatic crystal | 2 answers |
| Multicolored gemstone | 2 answers |
| An October birthstone | 2 answers |
| One of October's birthstones | 2 answers |
| PEGMATITE, component of | 4 answers |
| Sri Lanka export | 5 answers |
| BABIES OCTOBER BIRTHSTONE | 10 answers |
| blue green mineral | 10 answers |
| A RARE LIGHT BLUE OR GREEN MINERAL | 10 answers |
| A BLUE TO GREY GREEN MINERAL CONSISTING OF COPPER ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE | 11 answers |
| BLUE mineral | 14 answers |
| BIRTHSTONE (in order of month) | 25 answers |
| crystalline | 57 answers |
| Gem | 62 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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TOURMALINE (5)
Coral patches uprose everywhere from the turquoise depths, running the gamut of green from deepest jade to palest tourmaline, over which the sea filtered changing shades, creamed lazily, or burst into white fountains of sun- flashed spray.
Seaward, glimpsed through a fringe of hundred-foot coconut palms, was the ocean; beyond the reef a dark blue that grew indigo blue to the horizon, within the reef all the silken gamut of jade and emerald and tourmaline.
Very learnedly then from William's lips fell the new vocabulary that had come to him with his latest treasures: chrysoprase, carnelian, girasol, onyx, plasma, sardonyx, lapis lazuli, tourmaline, chrysolite, hyacinth, and carbuncle.
Numerous other minerals are at times mistaken for tin, the most common of which are tourmaline or schorl, garnet, wolfram (which is a tungstate of iron with manganese), rutile or titanic acid, blackjack or zinc blende, together with magnetic, titanic, and specular iron in fine grains.
From the table above it will be observed that many minerals are omitted which, even if they are of common occurrence, are more to be regarded as accessory than as essential components of the rocks in which they are found.[3] Such are, for example, Garnet, Epidote, Tourmaline, Idocrase, Andalusite, Scapolite, the various Zeolites, and several other silicates of somewhat rarer occurrence.
Quotes with TOURMALINE (3)
I'll be your minister--""Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind.""I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly." Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?""That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it.""My earrings?""What earrings?
I was meeting a mountain. I meant to kiss her in secret. I meant to wed her under the midnight dark. The prettiest mountain you ever saw, sparkling with snow in all the right places, rich with granite and tourmaline and silver, sturdy and sensible and weathered by experience of eons. When she saw me, my mountain's pine trees bristled and the wind in her heights whistled my name. When I saw her, I felt rivers break through the rock of my heart and carve me into a new shape.
Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or cooled by intellectual feeling. And if we are surprised, and some of us disappointed, that the light is now only green - well, such was the vital probability awaiting us. We have, after all, an increase in the energy available for further evolution; we can use the energy of our position relative to the probabilities in the future to reach the future we desire. The full use of t…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1988–2012).