Haematite

Word HAEMATITE
Character 9
Hyphenation hæm a tite
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Haematite"

What do we mean by haematite?

An iron ore, mainly peroxide of iron, Fe2O3.

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The word "haematite" in example sentences

Alternatively, the fire screen is created in haematite (black steel) plate, possessing the attribute of projecting shadow, even when the fire is extinguished or the light source removed; running on its shadow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This substance, also called haematite, has some practical use as an adhesive. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We saw several miners, who told us that they got the ore (known as haematite, or iron oxide) at a depth of from 90 to 100 yards, working by candle-light, and that they received about 2s. 6d. per ton as the product of their labour. ❋ Robert Naylor (N/A)

We now come to large masses of haematite, which is often ferruginous: there is conglomerate too, many quartz pebbles being intermixed. ❋ Ed (1874)

Small discs of jade, obsidian or haematite were then cemented into the holes: the plant adhesive was so powerful that many burials found by archaeologists today still have the inlays firmly in place. ❋ Jan (2009)

Yellow haematite, which bears not the smallest resemblance either in colour or weight to the metal, is employed near Kolobeng for the production of iron. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Great masses of iron haematite cropped up above the surfaces in these forests. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)

“Box No. 27,” Iron from Mugnah, proved to be haematite (which is magnetic), with some red-brown oxide of iron and quartz. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The ores in question have various local names: brown haematite (xanthosiderite), limonite, pea ore, conglomerate ore, minette (iron ooliths), sea ore, bog ore, stilpnosiderite, yellow clay ironstone, yellow ochre. ❋ Unknown (1985)

A finely granulated admixture of corundum (oxide of aluminium) and either magnetite or haematite ❋ Unknown (1984)

For beauty of crystals and variety of forms the haematite mines of the Cleator Moor district in west Cumberland and the ❋ Various (N/A)

Aventurine felspar, known also as Sun-stone (_q. v._) is found principally at Tvedestrand in south Norway, and is a variety of oligoclase enclosing micaceous scales of haematite. ❋ Various (N/A)

Diamond, sir, in extraordinary evidence! in conjunction with specular iron ore, commonly called the red haematite, and the ferrous carbonate, or spathic iron. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The surface of the stone had been covered with a fine layer of plaster, reddened with haematite, of which some traces remained; the skirt was painted white. ❋ James Edward Quibell (1901)

The commonest beads were spherical and barrel-shaped, of carnelian, haematite, and amethyst, and discs of shell, these last the commonest of all. ❋ James Edward Quibell (1901)

Nos. 48, 49, 51, 55, and the three sharp-edged bowls, are of a good ware, washed with haematite. ❋ James Edward Quibell (1901)

The haematite mines seem to be inexhaustible, and as the raising of the ore is cheap and easy by means of our extraordinary water-power, and as coal comes down to the plateau by its own gravity on the cable-line, we have natural advantages which exist hardly anywhere else in the world -- certainly not all together, as here. ❋ Bram Stoker (1879)

Yellow haematite is very abundant, but the other rocks scarcely appear in the distance; we have mountains both on the east and west. ❋ Ed (1874)

A good deal of ferruginous conglomerate, with holes in it, covers many spots; when broken, it looks like yellow haematite, with black linings to the holes: this is probably the ore used in former times by the smiths, of whose existence we now find still more evidence than further east. ❋ Ed (1874)

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