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bluestone

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Noun

  1. Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction
  2. Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction: A form of dolerite which appears blue when wet or freshly broken.
  3. Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction: Any of the several (massive) kinds of non-local stone (particularly dolerite) used to construct Stonehenge.
  4. Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction: A feldspathic sandstone found in the US and Canada.
  5. Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction: A form of limestone found in the Shenandoah Valley and some other places.
  6. Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction: A bluish-grey basalt or olivine basalt.
  7. Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction: Slate, such as comes from quarries in or near Adelaide.
  8. Either of two related copper- and sulfur-based bright blue stones: Copper(II) sulfate, CuSO₄(H₂O)ₓ where x is 0-5, used as a coloring agent in glass-making and pottery and for other purposes.
  9. Either of two related copper- and sulfur-based bright blue stones: Chalcanthite, a water-soluble sulfate mineral, CuSO₄·5H₂O.
  10. Lapis lazuli, or its core constituent, lazurite.

Verb

  1. To treat or dose with copper sulfate.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

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