pyrope

NOUN
  1. a deep red garnet used as a gemstone
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  • Garnet has a general grain size of about 3 mm and its composition is almandine, pyrope, spessartine and grossular.
  • These had a composition between almandite and pyrope, that is, they had both magnesium and iron with aluminum and silica. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
  • Other minerals from the State Line kimberlite pipes have gem potential; these include pyrope and chrome diopside.
  • - Garnet is the name of a large family of gemstones that includes pyrope, grossular, andradite, spessartine, and almandine. Undefined
  • pyrope," the deeper and richer tints being designated "carbuncle," from the Latin _carbunculus_, a little coal, because when this beautiful variety of the "noble" garnet is held up between the eyes and the sun, it is no longer a deep, blood-red, but has exactly the appearance of a small piece of live or glowing coal, the scarlet portion of its colour-mixture being particularly evident. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
  • Dark pink and crimson-red colors are added to the display by the presence of spinels and pyropealmandine garnets.
  • The somewhat less dense, and less hard blood red garnets are properly called "_pyrope garnets_ A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
  • Both phases contain olivine, picroilmenite, pyrope garnet and chrome diopside macrocrysts. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • In the introduction to the garnet group, the various distinct species such as pyrope, almandite, grossularite, andradite, and spessartite are referred to as varieties.
  • These include aquamarine, chrome diopside, diamond, jade, labradorite, forsterite, opal, pyrope, variscite, and many unique agates and jaspers.
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