A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent Discoveries

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J. Wiley & Son, 1868 - 827 ページ
 

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xx ページ - For convenience all minerals are referred to a scale of hardness of ten units, composed of common or well known minerals, which are as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite; (6) orthoclase; (7) quartz; (8) topaz; (9) sapphire; and (10) diamond.
xli ページ - Tableau comparatif des résultats de la cristallographie et de l'analyse chimique relativement à la classification des minéraux...
124 ページ - Amethyst, purple. The term sapphire is also often used as a general term to indicate corundum gems of any color except red. A variety having a stellate opalescence when viewed in the direction of the vertical axis of the crystal is the Asteriated Sapphire or Star Sapphire.
xl ページ - Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l'art qui composent le cabinet de M. Davila, avec figures en taille douce de plusieurs pièces qui n'avaient point été gravées; Paris, 1767 , 3 vol. m-8".
137 ページ - Smaolaud are entirely formed of it Still larger mountains of it exist at Kurunavara and Gelivara, in Lapland.
iv ページ - ... or in that of a copyist from it. Neither the consultation of original authorities, the drawing of conclusions, nor the putting of the results on paper, has been delegated to another.
xlv ページ - Report on the geology of the Lake Superior land district : by JW Foster and JD Whitney, United States Geologists. Part II.

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