Plural of cyanite; multiple specimens or varieties of the blue aluminum silicate mineral.
From cyanite + -s (plural marker). Multiple samples or different occurrences of the cyanite mineral.
When geologists talk about finding cyanites, they're looking at rocks that formed under extreme pressure and heat deep in the Earth—each cyanite crystal is a time capsule showing where that rock traveled as continents collided.
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