Meaning & use
melanite
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A black, opaque variety of andradite garnet, sometimes used as a gemstone or in jewelry.
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The museum displayed a cluster of melanite crystals from a volcanic rock formation.
Victorian mourning jewelry sometimes featured polished melanite instead of jet.
A note on using this word
Melanite gets its color and name from titanium impurities within the garnet structure, and 'melan-' comes from the Greek word for black.
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