SANG. PERS. A stone ; but used as it prefix to designate mineral earths, stones, minerals, gems, fossils, compounds used in the arts or in medicine.
Sang-i-abri, a mottled brown and yellow stone. Sang-i-akik, cornelian.
Sang-i-assbar, a form of silica.
Sang-i-assyum, millstone grit.
Sang-i-basri, a slag or dross of copper in tubular pieces ; from Bassorali (Basrah), where it is collected at the months of the chimneys of copper furnaces.
Sang.i-birinj, of the Dizful, an important stream in Khuzistan. The bed of an occasional torrent in ancient Susinna, called Ab-i-bald, falls into the Dizful, is covered with a .pebble filled with little fossil shells esembling 6-rains of rice. These stones are also found in the river at Shuster, but of an inferior quality, and they aro in much request throughout Persia for the head of the Narga pipe, which is almost invariably cotnposed of this material set in saver.
Sang i-chainak, massive magnetic iron-ore.
Sang.i-dallam, fire-clay procurable at Streepermatur, Tripasur, Chingleput, bletapolliam, and Cuddapah, and in many parts of India ; and bricks can be made that resist the action of great heat. A clay is found at Beypore 20 to 30 feet below the surface, and is used for fire-bricks and for lining furnaces.
Sa»g-i-irrnali, a fossil.
Sang-i-jahana in, lunar caustic ? Sang-i-jarahat, sulphate of limo, steatite, and other minerals.
Sang-i-kara, hornblende rock.
Sang-i-kharus, fossil encrinite.
Sang-i-larzan, flexible sandstone.
Sting-i.marjan, coral.
Sang-i-marmar, marble.
Sang-i-melitab, also tambra, garnet.
a red and white stone, imported via Pali, is used as an aphrodisiac ; ono tole for one alma. Sang-i-musa, hard clayslate, syenite, granite. Sang-i-palan, French chalk or steatite, used for making crucibles ; qu. sang-i-dalan ? Sang-i-pathani, bloodstone.
Sang-i.rasak, a mixture .of metallio copper with organic matter ; obtained during tho pro cess of melting copper and brass.
Sang-i-sabz, green earth.
Sanz-i-sar-i-nuthi. small fossil shells t also con cretion from the head of a flab, comes from Dalt, used as en aphrodisiac. 841 at 8 annaa • tole. Sang-l-eloulnaj, fossil nummulite.
Sang b sitar., a vantu rine.
onyx.
Sang bloodstone.
Sangd-ywallm, jado.
—Gra Med. Top. p. 152 ; Chesney ;