Min. Also Cyanosite. [f. Gr. κύανος dark-blue mineral.] A synonym of CALCANTHITE.
1844. Alger, Phillips’ Min., 495. Blue Vitriol. Cyanose.
1854. Dana, Min., 380. Cyanosite [rejected by him in 1868 ed.].
1869. Phillips, Vesuvius, x. 285. Cyanose—Sulphate of Copper—occurs sparingly on surfaces of lava.
