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Bolognian stone

Bolognian stone is the alternative form of Bologna stone.

Meaning of Bologna stone

Noun

Bologna stone (plural Bologna stones)

  1. The phosphorescent form of baryte.
    • It was concerned with the causes of the phosphorescence of the so-called 'Bologna stone' (a mineral named by the author of the book with the more imposing term of litheosphorus).2013, Marco Piccolino, Galileo's Visions: Piercing the spheres of the heavens by eye and mind

Forms of Bolognian stone

pluralBolognian stones

Questions about Bolognian stone

What is Bolognian stone the alternative form of?
Bolognian stone is the alternative form of Bologna stone.

Words near Bolognian stone in the dictionary

  1. Bolognese sauce
  2. Bolognese sauces
  3. bologneses
  4. Bolognian
  5. Bolognian phosphorus
  6. Bolognian stone
  7. Bolognian stones
  8. Bolognians
  9. bolognini
  10. bolognino
  11. bologram

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