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Albite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common cons…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Alum stone
unknown · 78% connection
A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Beauxite
noun · 78% connection
A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Cabazite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Corundum
noun · 78% connection
The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
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: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
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, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Edingtonite
noun · 78% connection
A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
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, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Epistilbite
noun · 78% connection
A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Euclase
noun · 78% connection
A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Feldspath
noun · 78% connection
A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Fibrolite
noun · 78% connection
A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Garnierite
noun · 78% connection
a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Glauconite
noun · 78% connection
a green mineral consisting of hydrated silicate of potassium or iron or magnesium or aluminum; found in greensand
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
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, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Handsel
noun · 78% connection
A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
Harmotome
noun · 78% connection
A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, hydrated, silicate, alumina, lime.
