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Garnet vs Kelyphite - What's the difference?

garnet | kelyphite |

As nouns the difference between garnet and kelyphite

is that garnet is a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives while kelyphite is a substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.

As an adjective garnet

is of a dark red colour.

garnet

English

(wikipedia garnet)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) granate, from (etyl) grenate, from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mineral) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 127:
    • How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=Lee A. Groat , title=Gemstones , volume=100, issue=2, page=128 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet , lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}
  • A dark red.
    • Derived terms
    * demantoid garnet * garnet berry * garnet brown * garnetiferous * garnierite * gooseberry garnet * mandarin garnet * tsavorite garnet * YAG
    See also
    (mineral) * allochroite * almandine * andradite * carbuncle * cinnamon stone * Colorado ruby * demantoid * essonite * grossularite * hessonite * melanite * ouvarovite * pyrope * rhodolite * spessartine * topazolite * tsavorite * uvarovite

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Of a dark red colour.
    • See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * argent ----

    kelyphite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mineralogy) A substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.
  • *{{quote-journal
    • , date = 2000-05-19 , first = Kenneth D. , last = Collerson , coauthors = et al. , title = Rocks from the Mantle Transition Zone: Majorite-Bearing Xenoliths from Malaita, Southwest Pacific , journal = , issn = 0036-8075 , doi = 10.1126/science.288.5469.1215 , volume = 288 , issue = 5469 , pages = 1215-1223 , url = http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/288/5469/1215 , passage = Relationships shown in Fig. 3 , B and C demonstrate that formation of the symplectite predated development of glassy kelyphite veins which formed by decompression melting during rapid ascent of the host . }}
  • * Obata, M.; Ozawa, K.; Spengler, D. in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #V44A-02
  • *:Kelyphite is a fine grained, fibrous and radially oriented mineral assembly surrounding partially retrogressed garnet.