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SPINEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("spinel" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "spinel"):
atomic number 12; magnesium; Mg (a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spinel"):
ruby spinel; spinel ruby (a spinel used as a gemstone (usually dark red))
Ceylonite; pleonaste (a dark-colored spinel containing iron)
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