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• “We are in the midst of another tremendous era of reclassification — like the scientists of the 18th century,” says Robert Downs, a mineralogist who with his University of Arizona colleague Bonner Denton, a chemist, has spearheaded the development of Raman technology. Everything Is Illuminated
• It is most probable that the stone described by Marco Polo was not a ruby, but an amethyst, which is found in large crystals in Ceylon, and which modern mineralogists believe to be the "hyacinth" of the ancients. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
• The name indicolite which mineralogists give to these blue stones suggests the indigo-blue color which they afford. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
• Lectures will cover both species and locality mineralogy and will be presented by professional mineralogists and geologists, mining engineers, and professors.
• Also a mineralogist and scientific writer in periodicals. Index of People
• These layers can be seen in muscovite mica specimens because it can be split (mineralogists call this feature cleavage) into very thin, flexible, transparent layers. Mica
• Early in the 1800s, mineralogists recognized that tiger's-eye was a fibrous variety of quartz, or silicon dioxide.
• * Amphibole is in general very rare at Teneriffe, not only in the modern lithoid lavas, but also in the ancient basalts, as has been observed by M. Cordier, who resided longer at the Canaries than any other mineralogist. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
• A pirate, a rural French bug collector, a Soviet mineralogist and a Holy Roman Emperor count among this volume's contributors. Gift Guide: Best of Science
• He has a face of that rubicund, knobby type I have heard an indignant mineralogist speak of as botryoidal, and about it waves a quantity of disorderly blond hair. A Modern Utopia