Spinet vs Spinel - What's the difference?
spinet | spinel |
(mineralogy) Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=Lee A. Groat
, title=Gemstones
, volume=100, issue=2, page=128
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(solid state chemistry) Any crystalline material, not necessarily an oxide, that possesses the same crystal structure as this mineral.
Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.
As nouns the difference between spinet and spinel
is that spinet is (musical instruments) a short, compact harpsichord or piano or spinet can be (obsolete) a spinney while spinel is (mineralogy) any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours.spinet
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(wikipedia spinet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) spinetta.See also
* virginalEtymology 2
(etyl) (lena) spinetum.Anagrams
* * ----spinel
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(wikipedia spinel)Noun
(en noun)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.)}}
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