Kyanite

I missed hatching opportunity on 'Twosday' but MAN DOES THIS MAKE UP FOR IT BECAUSE LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL ON THIS GUY. He's lovely and I love him and he's blue and has a good tert and he's so worth it for his price tag which is a lot ;c; Why can I never keep WC scrolls longer than a few months? However I have really really wanted a Pharaoh dragon since the genes came out so it is good excuse. I have some help from Skarlette with dressing and he came out as this cool warrior Tolkien-esque thing which is awesome :D Personality maybe like a sword wielding Legolas or something.

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Kyanite is a typically blue alumino-silicate mineral, found in aluminium-rich metamorphic pegmatites and sedimentary rock. It is the high pressure polymorph of andalusite and sillimanite, and the presence of kyanite in metamorphic rocks generally indicates metamorphism deep in the Earth's crust. Kyanite is also known as disthene or cyanite. Kyanite is strongly anisotropic, in that its hardness varies depending on its crystallographic direction. In kyanite, this anisotropism can be considered an identifying characteristic, along with its characteristic blue color. Its name comes from the same origin as that of the color cyan, being derived from the Ancient Greek word κύανος. This is generally rendered into English as kyanos or kuanos and means "dark blue". Kyanite is used as a raw material in the manufacture of ceramics and abrasives, and it is an important index mineral used by geologists to trace metamorphic zones.

The kyanite structure can be visualized as a distorted face centered cubic lattice of oxygen ions, with aluminium ions occupying 40% of the octahedral sites and silicon occupying 10% of the tetrahedral sites. The aluminium octahedra form chains along the length of the crystal, half of which are straight and half of which are zigzag, with silica tetrahedra linking the chains together. There is no direct linkage between silica tetraheda, making kyanite a member of the nesosilicate class of silicate minerals.