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Definition: HYALITE

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Muller's glass.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Hyalite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Etymology:Hyalite \Hy"a*lite\, noun. [Greek expression glass: compare to the French expression hyalite.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: HYALITE

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] Muller's glass. It consists chiefly of silex,and is white, sometimes with a shade of yellow, blue or green.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Industry A colorless opal that is sometimes clear as glass and sometimes translucent or whitish and that occurs as globules or crusts lining cavities or cracks in rocks. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining A variety of globular or botryoidal opal that shows greenish-yellow fluorescence under ultraviolet light and can be mistaken for uranium-bearing minerals such as autunite. Syn: glass opal; water opal. (references)
Wikipedic Hyalite is a form of opal with a glassy appearance. It is also called Muller's Glass. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Extended Definition: HYALITE

Hyalite

A sample of hyalite
A sample of hyalite
Fluorescent hyalite under ultraviolet light
Fluorescent hyalite under ultraviolet light

Hyalite is a form of opal with a glassy and clear appearance which exhibits an internal play of colors and has natural inclusions. It is also called Muller's glass, water opal and jalite. Its Mohs hardness is 5.5 to 6 and it has a specific gravity of 2.1. It is an amorphous form of silica. Its has a conchoidal fracture, a vitreous luster and a white streak. It is sometimes mistaken for resin opal, since they both look like little globs. It glows bright green under blacklight.

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Topics by Level of Interest: HYALITE

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Hyalite 4     Hyalite 4

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Synonym: hyalite
Position Synonym (sorted by strength)

Expression

 hyalite opal.
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Computed Synonyms: hyalite

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 Synonyms of synonym

 1   2.1598   hyalite     hyaline     vitreous, glassy, transparent, clear, diaphanous   
 2   2.0093   hyalite     glassy     vitreous, transparent, clear, limpid, pellucid   
 3   2.0091   hyalite     vitreous     glassy, hyaline, hyaloid, glazed, amorphous   
 4   2.0090   hyalite     crystal clear     clear, transparent, pellucid, lucid, limpid   
 5   1.0094   hyalite     opal     opaline, opossum, ophthalmoscope, ophthalmologist, girasol   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: hyalite

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 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0693   hyalite opal     hyalitis     hyaloiditis   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: HYALITE

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Albanian hialit (hyalite). Additional references: Albanian, Turkey (Europe), hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Annamese opan thuỷ tinh (hyalite). Additional references: Annamese, Viet Nam, China, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Arnaut hialit (hyalite). Additional references: Arnaut, Turkey (Europe), hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski хиалит (hyalite). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski (transliteration) khialit (hyalite). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian hyalit (hyalite). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese hialino (hyaline, crystal clear, glassy, hyalite, vitreous). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian хиалит (hyalite). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian (transliteration) khialit (hyalite). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina hyalit (hyalite). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 玉滴石 (hyalite). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 玉滴石 (hyalite). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Ching opan thuỷ tinh (hyalite). Additional references: Ching, Viet Nam, China, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech hyalit (hyalite). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Gin opan thuỷ tinh (hyalite). Additional references: Gin, Viet Nam, China, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 옥적석 (hyalite), 【광물】 옥적석 (hyalite), 거울 같이 투명한 바다 (hyalite). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 옥적석 (hyalite), 【광물】 옥적석 (hyalite), 거울 같이 투명한 바다 (hyalite). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Hungarian kialit (hyalite). Additional references: Hungarian, Hungary, Austria, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian ialite (hyalite). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 玉滴石 (hyalite). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Jing opan thuỷ tinh (hyalite). Additional references: Jing, Viet Nam, China, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Kinh opan thuỷ tinh (hyalite). Additional references: Kinh, Viet Nam, China, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 옥적석 (hyalite), 【광물】 옥적석 (hyalite), 거울 같이 투명한 바다 (hyalite). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Magyar kialit (hyalite). Additional references: Magyar, Hungary, Austria, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese hialino (hyaline, crystal clear, glassy, hyalite, vitreous). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian бесцветный опал (hyalite), гиалит (hyalite). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration) bestsvetnyy opal (hyalite), gialit (hyalite). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki бесцветный опал (hyalite), гиалит (hyalite). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration) bestsvetnyy opal (hyalite), gialit (hyalite). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Serbian (transliteration) prirodnog opala (hyalite), od bezbojnog (hyalite), bezbojan prirodan opal (hyalite). Additional references: Serbian (transliteration), hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Shkip hialit (hyalite). Additional references: Shkip, Turkey (Europe), hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Shqip hialit (hyalite). Additional references: Shqip, Turkey (Europe), hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Shqiperë hialit (hyalite). Additional references: Shqiperë, Turkey (Europe), hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Skchip hialit (hyalite). Additional references: Skchip, Turkey (Europe), hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Slovak opál (opal, hyalite), hyalitový (hyalite), hyalitová (hyalite), hyalit (hyalite). Additional references: Slovak, Slovakia, Hungary, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Slovakian opál (opal, hyalite), hyalitový (hyalite), hyalitová (hyalite), hyalit (hyalite). Additional references: Slovakian, Slovakia, Hungary, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish hialita (hyalite). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Tosk hialit (hyalite). Additional references: Tosk, Turkey (Europe), hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Ukrainian безбарвний опал (hyalite). Additional references: Ukrainian, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Ukrainian (transliteration) bezbarvniy opal (hyalite). Additional references: Ukrainian, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Viet opan thuỷ tinh (hyalite). Additional references: Viet, Viet Nam, China, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Vietnamese opan thuỷ tinh (hyalite). Additional references: Vietnamese, Viet Nam, China, hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
Zhgabe hialit (hyalite). Additional references: Zhgabe, Turkey (Europe), hyalite. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: HYALITE

Language Translations for “hyalite” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag hyathagathagalathagite (hyalite). Additional references: Athag, hyalite. (volunteer)
Double Dutch hyagagalagite (hyalite). Additional references: Double Dutch, hyalite. (volunteer)
Leet #\-/^|_!+& (hyalite). Additional references: Leet, hyalite. (volunteer)
Oppish hyopopalopite (hyalite). Additional references: Oppish, hyalite. (volunteer)
Pig Latin yalitehay (hyalite). Additional references: Pig Latin, hyalite. (volunteer)
Terran B hialit (hyalite). Additional references: Terran B, hyalite. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi hyububalubite (hyalite). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, hyalite. (volunteer)
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