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  2. Viola sororia - Wikipedia

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    Viola sororia ( / vaɪˈoʊlə səˈrɔːriə / vy-OH-lə sə-ROR-ee-ə ), [ 5] known commonly as the common blue violet, is a short-stemmed herbaceous perennial plant native to eastern North America. It is known by a number of common names, including common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly blue violet, hooded violet, and wood violet.

  3. Cordierite - Wikipedia

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    Cordierite ( mineralogy) or iolite ( gemology) is a magnesium iron aluminium cyclosilicate. Iron is almost always present, and a solid solution exists between Mg-rich cordierite and Fe-rich sekaninaite with a series formula: ( Mg, Fe)2 Al 3( Si 5Al O 18) to (Fe,Mg)2Al3(Si5AlO18). [ 3] A high-temperature polymorph exists, indialite, which is ...

  4. Viola odorata - Wikipedia

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    Viola odorata is a species of flowering plant in the family Violaceae, native to Europe and Asia. This small hardy herbaceous perennial is commonly known as wood violet, [ 1] sweet violet, [ 2] English violet, [ 2] common violet, [ 2] florist's violet, [ 2] or garden violet. [ 2] It has been introduced into the Americas and Australia.

  5. Blue–green distinction in language - Wikipedia

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    However, in Old Javanese birū could mean pale blue, grayish blue, greenish blue, or even turquoise, while hijo which means green, could also mean the blue-green color of clear water. Biru and ijo in Modern Javanese are cognates of Malay / Indonesian biru and hijau which both have the same meaning.

  6. Anhydrite - Wikipedia

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    Z = violet. Anhydrite, or anhydrous calcium sulfate, is a mineral with the chemical formula CaSO 4. It is in the orthorhombic crystal system, with three directions of perfect cleavage parallel to the three planes of symmetry. It is not isomorphous with the orthorhombic barium ( baryte) and strontium ( celestine) sulfates, as might be expected ...

  7. Rainbow - Wikipedia

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    The initialism is sometimes referred to in reverse order, as VIBGYOR. More modernly, the rainbow is often divided into red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and violet. [9] The apparent discreteness of main colours is an artefact of human perception and the exact number of main colours is a somewhat arbitrary choice.

  8. Viola adunca - Wikipedia

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    Viola bellidifolia. Viola cascadensis. Viola adunca is a species of violet known by the common names hookedspur violet, early blue violet, sand violet, and western dog violet. It is native to meadows and forests of western North America, Canada, and the northern contiguous United States. [ 1][ 2]

  9. Dumortierite - Wikipedia

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    Dumortierite is a fibrous variably colored aluminium boro - silicate mineral, Al 7 BO 3 (SiO 4) 3 O 3. Dumortierite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system typically forming fibrous aggregates of slender prismatic crystals. The crystals are vitreous and vary in color from brown, blue, and green to more rare violet and pink.