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Labrador spar

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a feldspar shot with blue, green, and other colors.

See: labradorite

Quotations

1787

The curious body the Labrador stone, which reflects all the colors of the peacock, is found there in loose masses.

1835

I collected specimens of gypsum, also, in this bay, and of a white friable stone resembling talk [sic] or Labradore spar, in the manner in which it breaks off into plates.

1861

Labrador abounds in white spar, and also in small specimens of that beautiful one called "Labrador spar."