What's the difference between vesuvian and vesuvianite?
Vesuvian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples.
(a.) Vesuvianite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Totò was a legend in the Vesuvian city – a comedian of genius; poignant, mysterious.
(2) And even then – after all this "Vesuvian hoopla", as Joe Klein put it in Time magazine – she still leaves us dangling.
(3) Like Arena, Punzo and his wife Cinzia are both Neapolitans – like a Vesuvian cabal in the Tuscan town.
Vesuvianite
Definition:
(n.) A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at Vesuvius. Also called idocrase.