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Actinolite
noun · 78% connection
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
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: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Babingtonite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, mang…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
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: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Cerolite
noun · 78% connection
A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
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: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
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: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Goethite
noun · 78% connection
A hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Hauynite
noun · 78% connection
A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani/ rocks. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of lime.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
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: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Hemin
noun · 78% connection
A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic aci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Heulandite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Hubner
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Lazuli
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Lime
verb · 78% connection
To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in ord…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Magnetite
noun · 78% connection
An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Menaccanite
noun · 78% connection
An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
Mesolite
noun · 78% connection
A zeolitic mineral, grayish white or yellowish, occuring in delicate groups of crystals, also fibrous massive. It is a hydrous silicat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: silicate, iron, lime, occurring, black.
