Labrador stone

noun

Labrador stone

noun

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Archaic Labradorite; Labrador spar.

The beautiful prismatic colours seen on the Labrodore stone are owing to a similar cause, viz. the thinness of the laminæ of which it consists […].1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 120:

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