Uses
In manufacture of vases, ornamental furniture, mosaics; in paints, jewelry.
Definition
An uncommon typically
azure blue mineral consisting of a silicate
of sodium, calcium, and aluminum
with some sulfur. It and its parent rock,
lapis lazuli, are widely used for ornaments
and as semiprecious gemstones. Lazurite
was the original source of the pigment ultramarine.
