hairstone
hairstone is the alternative spelling of hair stone.
Meaning of hair stone
Noun
hair stone (countable and uncountable, plural hair stones)
- Clear quartz crystal containing coloured filaments caused by impurities. Particular kinds are sometimes known as Venus’s hair stone or Thetis’s hair stone
- In some aggregates of quartz and shorl, slender capilliform needles of red shorl traverse the quartz, and cross each other in various directions. This stone is in some estimation, and is by the Germans called hairstone. It is found in Siberia.1810, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy, 3rd edition, volume 1, pages 301–302
Forms of hairstone
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Phrases with hairstone
Questions about hairstone
- What is hairstone the alternative spelling of?
- Hairstone is the alternative spelling of hair stone.
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