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basanite

noun

[Gr. the trier. Plin. Lib. 36. Ca. 22. See Basalt]

Lydian stone, or black jasper; a variety of siliceous or flinty slate. Its color is a grayish or bluish black, interspersed with veins of quartz. It is employed to test the purity of gold.