lazurite

From Medieval Latin lazur (“lapis lazuli”), from Arabic لَازَوَرْد‎ (lāzaward), from Persian لاژورد‎ (lâžvard).

lazurite (usually uncountable, plural lazurites)

1. (mineralogy) A mineral of metamorphosed limestones. Lazurite forms the gemstone lapis lazuli, and crushed lazurite provided the ultramarine color in artists' paint of the Old Masters. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite group of silicate minerals. Chemical composition: Sodium aluminum silicate with sulphur, Na_4-5Al₃Si₃O₁₂S.
   • 2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 128:

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)

• lazurite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sodalite
• silicate, silica group

• “Lazurite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
• “lazurite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

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