How To Use azurite In A Sentence
- Long before the statue was unearthed, the natural process of patination had caused the formation of the red cuprite, blue azurite and green malachite commonly found in ancient bronzes. Apollo Deconstructed
- Sometimes the aikinite is altered, and fractures in the surrounding quartz are filled with thin blue and green films of azurite and malachite formed from the copper liberated by the aikinite.
- For digital photography, SoLux bulbs are perfect, yielding accurate rendition of difficult-to-photograph minerals such as dioptase and azurite.
- Only a handful of high-quality azurite in equant blocky crystals to 4 cm have been found in these pockets so far.
- Lazurite, the deep blue variety of sodalite with sulphur replacing some of the chlorine, is dominant in lapis-lazuli.
- (hence the name chessylite, sometimes used instead of azurite). A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
- Associated minerals are azurite, quartz, plancheite, cerussite, and mottramite.
- Associated minerals are olivenite, chalcophyllite, clinoclase, comwallite, strashimirite, malachite, azurite, and cuprite.
- A green mineral, malachite, similar to azurite in constitution and often found with it, was pulverized to form a strong mid-green pigment, particularly in tempera techniques; there was also a synthetic type.
- Locally stalactitic malachite, occasionally associated with well-crystallized azurite, occurred in the copper ores at Corocoro, Bolivia.
