almandine

Almandine

Alteration of earlier alabandine, from Latin alabandina, from Alabanda, a town in Caria, a province of Asia Minor, where the mineral was found.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈal.mən.dʌɪn/

almandine (countable and uncountable, plural almandines)

1. (mineralogy) A type of garnet having a deep red color, inclining to purple, with the chemical formula Fe₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 164:

     Almandine, the variety found here, is stable at temperatures of 540 to 900°C at a pressure of 200 GPa.

• “Almandine” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
• “almandine”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

• Mandelian

almandine

1. Alternative form of almaunden

• “alma(u)ndin, (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 May 2018.