Meaning of bluestone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction
   countable, uncountable
3. Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction:
   UK, countable, uncountable
4. A form of dolerite which appears blue when wet or freshly broken.
   UK, countable, uncountable
5. Any of the several (massive) kinds of non-local stone (particularly dolerite) used to construct Stonehenge.
   UK, countable, uncountable
6. A feldspathic sandstone found in the US and Canada.
   Canada, US, countable, uncountable
7. A form of limestone found in the Shenandoah Valley and some other places.
   US, countable, uncountable
8. A bluish-grey basalt or olivine basalt.
   Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable
9. Slate, such as comes from quarries in or near Adelaide.
   Australia, South, countable, uncountable
10. Either of two related copper- and sulfur-based bright blue stones:
    countable, uncountable
11. Copper(II) sulfate, CuSO₄(H₂O)ₓ where x is 0-5, used as a coloring agent in glass-making and pottery and for other purposes.
    countable, uncountable
12. Chalcanthite, a water-soluble sulfate mineral, CuSO₄·5H₂O.
    countable, uncountable
13. Lapis lazuli, or its core constituent, lazurite.
    countable, uncountable

Examples

“Its people are proud of their history and heritage of free settlement and the famous bluestone homes and public buildings of Adelaide are among the most orderly and best cared for examples of colonial architecture in the country.”

“Hanson Chambers, as 56 Carrington Street was eventually known, confirmed the tradition that the South Australian bar would develop as a series of small enclaves, more often than not in old, bluestone buildings dating back to the nineteenth century.”

“William rented the house on the corner of Lefevre Terrace and Tynte Street: a two-storey home of local bluestone with stuccoed enrichments, in high Victorian Italianate style.”

“Mackenzie Wool and Hide now exported leather products around the world and, in a roundabout manner, and along with my parents, was helping us buy our bluestone cottage in the Adelaide suburb of Unley.”

“This consists of thoroughly spraying the plants with Bordeaux mixture once in ten days or two weeks after they have begun to run. Bordeaux mixture is made by bringing together the milk of lime and a solution of copper sulphate (bluestone).”

“Bordeaux mixture is a combination of bluestone (copper sulfate) and lime (calcium hydroxide).”

“This is, however, one of those cases in which you can use the chemical copper sulphate to study the process and theory while you are hunting down some bluestone. Take bluestone or copper sulphate and dissolve it in heated distilled water, ...”

“This belt is about 1,000 feet wide at the McConnell Mine, and ends a few hundred yards north of the Bluestone. […] It was worked about 30 years ago, and for a time supplied natural bluestone (chalcanthite) to the amalgamating mills ...”

“[…] of the mineral is a somewhat lighter shade of blue than that of bluestone (chalcanthite CuSOiSHjO).”

“In some of the claims chalcanthite — or bluestone — was found in quantities that could be mined profitably. This ore formed the principal output of the area in the early days, being shipped to Virginia City to furnish the copper sulphate used in ...”

“Very high-grade copper ore was produced including natural "bluestone" (chalcanthite) which was used in the silver mills of the Comstock.”

“From Cyprus were brought bricks of lead, with bluestone and elephant's tusks, and the vases were carved in fanciful designs, with the heads of goats, lions, bulls, and eagles.”

“[…] but the “bluestone,” or lapis lazuli, was quarried by the Egyptians in the Sinaitic peninsula, and to these mines, perhaps, the author refers.”

“Likewise, mineral analysis led him to the discovery of ultramarine or artificial lapis lazuli. […] Moreover, as should be noted, a so-called "Babel lazulite" was offered as tribute in addition to the genuine lapis lazuli or bluestone, and the Egyptians themselves manufactured this artificial lazulite.”

“Cedar from the Lebanon forests; lapis lazuli bluestone from sources as far away as Afghanistan; and ivory, ebony, [and] gold, […]”

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