noun
definition
A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gemstone.
Examples of pyrope in a Sentence
In another eclogite boulder, diamond was found partly embedded in pyrope.
Mention should be made of the pyrope garnet found at Elie Ness.
Specimens of pyrope with attached or embedded diamond had previously been found in the blue ground of the De Beers mines.
Other minerals found in various places of Bohemia are copper, sulphur, cobalt, alum, nickel, arsenic and various sorts of precious stone, like the Bohemian garnet (pyrope), and building stone.
The other minerals found in the concentrates are pebbles and fragments of pyrope, zircon, cyanite, chrome-diopside, enstatite, a green pyroxene, mica, ilmenite, magnetite, chromite, hornblende, olivine, barytes, calcite and pyrites.