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noun - a purple variety of the ruby spinel
noun - a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate
ALMANDINE - Almandine (), also known incorrectly as almandite, is a species of mineral belonging to the garnet group. The name is a corruption of alabandicus, wh...
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| Jul 18 2011 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
| Jul 14 2006 Universal |
| Mar 22 2005 The Times - Cryptic |
| Dec 5 2004 The Times - Cryptic |
| Aug 24 2001 Universal |
| May 23 1999 New York Times |
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| A deep violet-red garnet, FeAl2Si3O12, found in metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone. |
| a kind of garnet with a violet tint. |
| A kind of garnet with a violet tint. |
| a purple variety of the ruby spinel |
| a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate |
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Almandine (), also known incorrectly as almandite, is a species of mineral belonging to the garnet group. The name is a corruption of alabandicus, which is the name applied by Pliny the Elder to a stone found or worked at Alabanda, a town in Caria in Asia Minor. Almandine is an iron alumina garnet, of deep red color, inclining to purple. It is frequently cut with a convex face, or en cabochon, and is then known as carbuncle. Viewed through the spectroscope in a strong light, it generally shows three characteristic absorption bands.Almandine is one end-member of a mineral solid solution series, with the other end member being the garnet pyrope. The almandine crystal formula is: Fe3Al2(SiO4)3. Magnesium substitutes for the iron with increasingly pyrope-rich composition. * Almandine, Fe2+3Al2Si3O12, is the ferrous iron end member of the class of garnet minerals representing an important group of rock-forming silicates, which are the main constituents of the Earth's crust, upper mantle and t |