Spinel Definition

spinel, spinəl
noun
A variously colored, crystalline mineral, MgAlO4, used as a gem; magnesium aluminum oxide.
Webster's New World
Any of a group of minerals that are oxides of magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, or aluminum.
American Heritage

Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.

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Other Word Forms of Spinel

Noun

Singular:
spinel
Plural:
spinels

Origin of Spinel

  • Italian spinella diminutive of spina thorn (from its sharply pointed crystals) from Latin spīna

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French spinelle, perhaps from Latin spina (“a thorn, a prickle"), in allusion to its pointed crystals.

    From Wiktionary

Spinel Sentence Examples

  • Chrysoberyls have been found in New South Wales; spinel rubies in New South Wales and Victoria; and white topaz in all the states.

  • On account of their resemblance to the twins of the mineral spinel (which crystallizes in octahedra) these are ?i D known as " spinel twins."

  • Among the commonest associates of the diamond are quartz, topaz, tourmaline, rutile, zircon, magnetite, garnet, spinel and other minerals which are common accessory constituents of granite, gneiss and the crystalline schists.

  • Associated with franklinite at Franklin Furnace, and found also at some other localities, is another member of the spinel group, namely, gahnite or zinc-spinel, which is a zinc aluminate, ZnAl 2 O 4, with a little of the zinc replaced by iron and manganese.

  • Twinning according to the first law is effected by rotation about an axis normal to the sphenoidal face (III), the resulting form resembling the twins of blende and spinel.

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