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Alabaster
noun · 78% connection
A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Andalusite
noun · 78% connection
A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first dis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Aquamarine
noun · 78% connection
A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
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: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Cantharidin
noun · 78% connection
The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Chlorophyll
noun · 78% connection
Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to whic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Colemanite
noun · 78% connection
A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
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: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Epidote
noun · 78% connection
A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Gieseckite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elaeolite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Glass
verb · 78% connection
A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Greenfinch
noun · 78% connection
A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Greensand
noun · 78% connection
A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Grossular
adjective · 78% connection
A translucent garnet of a pale green color like that of the gooseberry; -- called also grossularite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Hexagonal
adjective · 78% connection
Having six sides and six angles; six-sided.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Iceland spar
unknown · 78% connection
A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Lanarkite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
Lazulite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous phosphate of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, phosphate, lime, occurring, six-sided.
