basanite
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of basanite
1745–55; < Latin basanītēs; basalt
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Basanite, bas′an-īt, n. a kind of quartz serviceable for testing the purity of the precious metals by the marks made.
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In the fourth, again, he was seen converting the ill-advised Battus into that stone that is called basanite; and in the fifth and last was his slaying, so cunningly achieved, of the many-eyed Argus.
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Let him be an old shepherd seated, showing with the forefinger of the right arm the place where the cattle were hidden, and leaning with the left arm on a stick or rod, the herdsman's staff; and from the waist downwards he must be of black stone of the colour of basanite, into which stone he was converted.
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Or is he a kind of basanite for bunches, and do they come out on us at the sight of him?
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The flows from Kibo include nepheline and leucite basanite lavas rich in soda felspars.
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