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aplome

aplome noun: a brown or green variety of andradite containing manganese.

Noun

aplome (uncountable)

  1. A brown or green variety of andradite containing manganese.
    • Aplome (properly haplome) has its dodecahedral faces striated parallel to the shorter diagonal, whence Haüy inferred that the fundamental form was the cube; and as this form is simpler than the dodecahedron, he gave it a name derived from ἁπλόος, simple. Color of the original aplome (of unknown...1912, Edward Salisbury Dana, A Text-book of Mineralogy with an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and Physical Mineralogy, New York: John Wiley & Sons, E.2.(b), page 417

Forms of aplome

alternative formhaplome

Origin of aplome

From French aplome, from Ancient Greek ἁπλόος (haplóos, “single, simple”). Coined by French priest and mineralogist René Just Haüy in 1801.

Questions about aplome

What does aplome mean?
Aplome means a brown or green variety of andradite containing manganese.
What part of speech is aplome?
Aplome is a noun.

Words near aplome in the dictionary

  1. aplomado falcon
  2. aplomado falcons
  3. aplomados
  4. aplomb
  5. aplombs
  6. aplome
  7. aplostemonous
  8. aplotaxene
  9. aplousobranch
  10. aplousobranchs
  11. aplowite

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