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Amphibole
noun · 78% connection
A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, general…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Augite
noun · 78% connection
A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
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: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Black
adjective · 78% connection
Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Chlorite
noun · 78% connection
The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Chondrodite
noun · 78% connection
A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Chrysolite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
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: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Crotonine
noun · 78% connection
A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Dark
adjective · 78% connection
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Dun
noun · 78% connection
A mound or small hill.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Foliation
noun · 78% connection
The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Glimmer
verb · 78% connection
To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering la…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Gneiss
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Granite
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It diff…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
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: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Hematite
noun · 78% connection
An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral cryst…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
Hornblende
noun · 78% connection
The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of the species,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mica, containing, iron, magnesia, generally.
