An almandinein which the ferrous oxide is replaced partly by magnesia is found at Luisenfeld in German East Africa.
Kunz has figured a crystal of coarse almandine weighing 91 lb.
Almandine occurs rather abundantly in the gem-gravels of Ceylon, whence it has sometimes been called Ceylon-ruby.
Fine crystals of almandine embedded in mica-schist occur near Fort Wrangell in Alaska.
The coarse varieties of almandine are often crushed for use as an abrasive agent.
Almandine is an iron alumina garnet, of deep red colour inclining to purple.
All the almandine garnets which I have examined, and nearly all the jargoons, show these characteristic absorption spectra.
In this way we are enabled to identify a jargoon or an almandine merely by looking at it.
The almandineproduces characteristic bands in the green and the jargoon in the red, green and blue portion of the spectrum.
The so-called almandinegarnets of the jeweler are frequently of the almandite class and tend to purplish red.
Almandine garnets also show no dichroism and lack variety of color.
On his old white finger thealmandine Shot out its rays, incarnadine.
The colour, ranging from garnet to almandine or ruby, told me the age and quality of wine; and I could judge from the crust it forms upon the bottle, whether it had been left long enough in wood to ripen.
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