spinel

About 0.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours.
2. noun Any crystalline material, not necessarily an oxide, that possesses the same crystal structure as this mineral.
3. noun Spindle; the amount of yarn that fits on a spindle.

Similar words

chrome espinel spinelle chlorospinel spinellite cuprospinel sulfospinel ulvospinel spilosite sulphospinel

Often followed by

structure and is phase in lherzolite ferrites peridotite type

Word family

spinelle spinelles spinels