Analyses of cyanite often show the presence of a small amount (usually less than 1%) of ferric oxide and sometimes traces of copper, and to these constituents the blue or green colour of the mineral is doubtless due.
We detached with difficulty a fragment of cyanite from a block of splintered and milky quartz, which was isolated on the shore.
In New Spain, the cyanite has been discovered only in the province of Guatimala, at Estancia Grande, --Del Rio Tablas Min.
The mineral cyanite is remarkable in having widely different degrees of hardness on different faces of its crystals and in different directions on the same face.
The characteristic transverse striae, invariably present on the cleavage surfaces of stibnite and cyanite are due to secondary twinning along glide-planes, and have resulted from the bending of the crystals.
The analytical chemist made a few scientific remarks upon the properties of pigments, in which Professor Cyanite joined, whilst our artist silently removed the colours from his palette.
To fill up the time in the interim, Professor Cyanite filled up a pipe of tobacco, and was about to light it.
The cyanite depths of the sky turned grey, cold; there was a feeling in the air of settling dew; a dank mist filled the hollows; the color seemed suddenly to have faded from the world.
The meadows and distant woods were vague against the primrose west, the cyanite curtain of the east, when the baskets were assembled for the return.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cyanite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
