citrine

[ US /ˌsɪˈtɹin/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪtɹiːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. semiprecious yellow quartz resembling topaz
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How To Use citrine In A Sentence

  • As autumn advances, citrine tends towards its orange hues, including the colours termed aurora, chamoise, and others before enumerated under the head of yellow. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • Purple quartz is known as amethyst; white is milky quartz; black is smoky quartz; pink is rose quartz, and yellow or orange is citrine. Quartz
  • If this be the case, the citrine cast of the brown oxide is easily explained, as well as the gradual addition to its green by the deoxidation of the chromic acid. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • She might also tell me to do something new (and so be renewed?), such as ride my bike to Camaret and give my new friend Liliane a jam jar of jardin jewels: those ruby and sapphire and citrine splendors in the garden. Savoir Vivre
  • Other favorites are rich umbers citrines, royals and emeralds. Judy Licht: The Frill of It All
  • Citrine, or the colour of the citron, is the first of the tertiary class of colours, or ultimate compounds of the primary triad, yellow, red, and blue; in which yellow is the archeus or predominating colour, and blue the extreme subordinate. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • Each day there seemed to be something special that we saw or heard: the aquatic warbler, a citrine wagtail, a rosefinch, a penduline tit flying in and out of its nest or a bittern booming.
  • The next few pockets yielded only dark blue apatite and clear to smoky to pale citrine quartz.
  • She might also tell me to do something new (and so be renewed?), such as ride my bike to Camaret and give my new friend Liliane a jam jar of jardin jewels: those ruby and sapphire and citrine splendors in the garden. Inspiration
  • Explaining the mineral contents of this mosaic, Rose said, "the red is garnet, blue is turquoise, the lighter blue are crystals of calcite, the black is a very rare marble ... and the name of the marble is Orca, and her hair is made with California white quartz and citrine which is yellow quarts. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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