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johannite

n. (context mineralogy English) A rare green uranium sulfate mineral.

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Johannite

Johannite is a rare uranium sulfate mineral. It crystallizes in the triclinic crystal system with the chemical composition Cu[UO(OH)SO]ยท8HO. It crystallizes in the triclinic system and develops only small prism or thin to thick tabular crystals, usually occurs as flaky or spheroidal aggregates and efflorescent coatings. Its color is emerald-green to apple-green and its streak is pale green.

Johannite is a strong radioactive mineral with a calculated activity of 87,501,143 Bq/g (to the comparison: natural potassium: 31.2 Bq/g).

Usage examples of "johannite".

Frankly, we had no serious hope then of finding anything more concrete than that, but as time went by, we were to uncover much more solid evidence that the Priory was indeed part of such a Johannite tradition.

Despite the Celtic elements in the Grail stories, Waite sees their Johannite influence as originating from the Middle East, via the Templars.

Neo-Templar Johannite Church in Paris in 1828, into which his own followers were initiated in due course, and after his death ten years later Sir William Sydney Smith, the high-ranking Freemason and hero of the Napoleonic Wars, took over from him.

Their instrument was to be the Knights Templar, and Hugues de Payens and the other founding knights were, in fact, Johannite initiates.

Clearly, we needed to delve further into this Johannite theme within the Masonic tradition.

It is curious that this Johannite thread runs so pervasively and consistently through all these groups, because it is also one of the least known.

Although there are compelling reasons for thinking that the modern Mandaeans are merely one branch of the surviving Johannite Church, it is still instructive to note W.

The Templars appeared to know of the existence of the Johannite tradition before they found it, but how they learned of it no-one can say.

What was there about the Magdalene and Johannite traditions that provoked such zeal and devotion?

Christendom some form of proof for their age-old beliefs, some tangible support for their goddess-worshipping, Johannite tradition.

George,A Mirror for the Johannite Masons , Richard Spencer, London, 1848.

There existed at that period in the East a Sect of Johannite Christians, who claimed to be the only true Initiates into the real mysteries of the religion of the Saviour.

The Epic of Dante is Johannite and Gnostic, an audacious application, like that of the Apocalypse, of the figures and numbers of the Kabalah to the Christian dogmas, and a secret negation of every thing absolute in these dogmas.

Jewish traditions, Talmud and pretended history claimed by the Johannite, 816-l.

Theoclet, Johannite Pontiff, initiated de Payens into the Gnostic Mysteries, 817-u.