Usage examples (4)

• The so-called almandine garnets of the jeweler are frequently of the almandite class and tend to purplish red.
• These had a composition between almandite and pyrope, that is, they had both magnesium and iron with aluminum and silica.
• Brazil, from its prolific gem gravels at Minas Novas, supplies good almandite, and smaller quantities are found in many different localities.
• These are all silicates, the almandite garnets being silicates of iron and aluminum; the pyrope garnets are silicates of magnesium and aluminum; the hessonite garnets,...