Noun
A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnother town of this stage was found at Kalibangan in India on the Hakra River. citation Trade networks linked this culture with related regional cultures and distant sources of raw materials, including lapis lazuli and other materials for bead-making. Source: Internet
"A top of Hekate is a golden sphere enclosing a lapis lazuli in its middle that is twisted through a cow-hide leather thong and having engraved letters all over it. Source: Internet
In 1824 the Societé pour l'Encouragement d'Industrie in France offered a prize for the invention of an artificial ultramarine which could rival the natural colour made from lapis lazuli. Source: Internet
Lapis lazuli owes its blue color to a trisulfur radical anion ( Smain ) Two parallel sulfur chains grown inside a single-wall carbon nanotube (CNT, a). Source: Internet
Lapis Lazuli Corridor (funded by the ADB) will connect Afghanistan to Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey. Source: Internet
He traditionally holds a lapis lazuli jar of medicine. Source: Internet