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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: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
Anorthite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
Axinite
noun · 78% connection
A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
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: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
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: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
Brewsterite
noun · 78% connection
A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
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: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
Cancrinite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carb…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
Crystallite
noun · 78% connection
A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not ref…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
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: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
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: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
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: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
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: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
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: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
Fracture
verb · 78% connection
To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
Gismondite
noun · 78% connection
A native hydrated silicate of alumina, lime, and potash, first noticed near Rome.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
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: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.
Glassy
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mineral, glassy, fracture, occurring, translucent.