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Sapphirelike vs Sapphirine - What's the difference?

sapphirelike | sapphirine |

As adjectives the difference between sapphirelike and sapphirine

is that sapphirelike is resembling a sapphire; intensely blue while sapphirine is of, pertaining to, or resembling sapphire.

As a noun sapphirine is

(mineralogy) a rare silicate of magnesium and aluminium (with iron as a major impurity), named for its sapphirelike colour.

sapphirelike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling a sapphire; intensely blue.

    • sapphirine

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia sapphirine)
  • (mineralogy) A rare silicate of magnesium and aluminium (with iron as a major impurity), named for its sapphirelike colour.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or resembling sapphire
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