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melanite
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Melanite
Melanite \Mel"a*nite\ (m[e^]l"[.a]*n[imac]t), n. [Gr. me`las, me`lanos, black: cf. F. m['e]lanite.] (Min.) A black variety of garnet.
Wiktionary
melanite
n. (context mineralogy English) A black variety of andradite.
Usage examples of "melanite".
At any rate, their lyddites, melanites, cordites, galignites, dynamites, toluols, powders, jellies, oils, marls, came in very well for their own destruction: for by three o'clock I had so worked, that I had on the first vehicles the phalanx of fuses, with kegs and cartridge-boxes full of powder, of explosive cottons and gelatines, liquid nitro-glycerine, earthy dynamite, with bombs, reels of cordite, two pieces of tarred cloth, an iron ladle, a spade, a crow-bar.