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labradorite
Part of speech: NounA variety of disseminated felspar having a peculiar pearly and iridescent play of colours when the light falls on it in certain directions.
Usage examples "labradorite":- 9. 44 0. 37 1. 10 5. 03 W 0. 71 2. 72. Labradorite. - "The Student's Elements of Geology", Sir Charles Lyell.
- It would be just as sensible to say that labradorite, which is rare, should be as costly as diamonds. - "The Story of the Trapper", A. C. Laut.
- If the elementary substances composing a group of cosmical bodies of different magnitudes be identical, why should they not likewise, in obeying the laws of mutual attraction, blend together under definite relations of mixture, composing the white glittring snow and ice in the polar zones of the planet Mars, or constituting in the smaller cosmical masses mineral bodies inclosing crystals of olivine, augite, and labradorite? - "COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1", Alexander von Humboldt.