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Agalmatolite
noun · 78% connection
A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Amber
noun · 78% connection
A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Ambergris
noun · 78% connection
A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secreti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Anhydrite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not con…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Apatite
noun · 78% connection
Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Asbestos
noun · 78% connection
A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Aventurine
noun · 78% connection
A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Barite
noun · 78% connection
Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granul…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Beryl
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Bisulphate
noun · 78% connection
A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Brocatel
noun · 78% connection
A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Carbonado
noun · 78% connection
A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinct…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Coarse
superl. · 78% connection
Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Copperas
noun · 78% connection
Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Design
noun · 78% connection
The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan sh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Dolomite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive be…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Dover's Powder
unknown · 78% connection
A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States)…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
Drummond light
unknown · 78% connection
A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compact, variety, sulphate, lime, gypsum.
