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schiller


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Schiller  \Schil"ler\,  n.  [G.,  play  of  colors.]  (Min.) 
  The  peculiar  bronzelike  luster  observed  in  certain  minerals, 
  as  hypersthene,  schiller  spar,  etc  It  is  due  to  the  presence 
  of  minute  inclusions  in  parallel  position,  and  is  sometimes 
  of  secondary  origin. 
 
  {Schiller  spar}  (Min.),  an  altered  variety  of  enstatite, 
  exhibiting,  in  certain  positions,  a  bronzelike  luster. 




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