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Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds ar…

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Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds ar…

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A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous…

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Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

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A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characte…

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Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like lead.

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A mineral of a tin-white color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel.

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Alt. of Asphaltum

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A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term p…

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Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in…

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Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.

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Alt. of Beauxite

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A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but als…

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A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.

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A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its co…

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A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and…

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A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upo…

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A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.

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A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.

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Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, some…

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Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous fo…

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Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.

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Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster.

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Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a…

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The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and ma…

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A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.

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A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a ge…

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Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

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A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.

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A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing…

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See Iolite.

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The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; th…

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Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.

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A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.

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The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.

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A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium.

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A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact…

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Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnet…

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A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythr…

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A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.

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A fluid state.

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Calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes…

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A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.

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A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca.

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A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the sa…

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An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.

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A hydrate of alumina.

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The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.

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Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.

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A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline vari…

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Native salt; sodium chloride.

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Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.

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Same as Vesuvianite.

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Titanic iron. See Menaccanite.

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Alt. of Iridosmium

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A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the A…

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See Jade, the stone.

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A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.

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Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony.

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A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It ha…

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Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.

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Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.

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A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.

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One of the oxides of manganese; -- called also gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-black crystals, also massive.

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A fine white claylike mineral, soft, and light enough when in dry masses to float in water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chi…

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The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.…

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A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.

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Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.

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A mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.

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A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals.

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Alt. of Nephelite

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A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeo…

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Same as Columbite.

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Nitrate of calcium, a substance having a grayish white color, occuring in efforescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there…

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An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.

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A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.

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A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity.

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Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry.

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Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerl…

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A waxlike mineral resin; -- sometimes called native paraffin, and mineral wax.

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Alt. of Periclasite

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A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the al…

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A colorless transparent mineral, resembling quartz, occurring with castor or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a silicate of alumina and caesia.…

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A hydrous oxide of manganese, occurring in smooth, botryoidal forms, and massive, and having an iron-black or steel-gray color.

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A common mineral of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites; iron disulphide.

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Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an iron-black or dark steel-gray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red h…

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Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so called because a fused globu…

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A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.

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A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90?, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. It vari…

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Alt. of Pyrrhotite

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A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyr…

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A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow…

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Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.

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Manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage like calcite; -- called als…

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Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone.

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A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium…

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A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.

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Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.

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Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.

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Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.

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A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.

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Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under…

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A mineral of a white to blue or gray color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine.

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An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in…

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Zinc sulphide; -- called also blende, black-jack, false galena, etc. See Blende (a).

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Alt. of Spinelle

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A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of alumini…

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A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.

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A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; -- called also antimony glance,…

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Strontium carbonate, a mineral of a white, greenish, or yellowish color, usually occurring in fibrous massive forms, but sometimes in prismatic cryst…

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A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling wri…

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Alt. of Sylvite

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Native potassium chloride.

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A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. S…

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A heavy mineral of an iron-black color and submetallic luster. It is essentially a tantalate of iron.

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A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium.

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A mineral occurring in rhombic prisms, generally yellowish and pellucid, also colorless, and of greenesh, bluish, or brownish shades. It sometimes oc…

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A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the m…

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Pure silica, like quartz, but crystallizing in hexagonal tables. It is found in trachyte and similar rocks.

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Alt. of Turquois

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A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.

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A group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. They are hydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kind of mica. So called…

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Of or pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples.

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A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina…

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Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavabl…

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A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.

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Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color; -- also called y…

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A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.

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A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are inclu…

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A steel-gray metallic mineral, a sulphide of antimony and lead.

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A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia. A red variety, used as a gem, is ca…

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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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See Roc.

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Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded…

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