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Agalmatolite
noun · 78% connection
A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Aphanite
noun · 78% connection
A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Asbestos
noun · 78% connection
A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
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: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Bronzite
noun · 78% connection
A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Brucite
noun · 78% connection
A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Carrier
noun · 78% connection
That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
CD-ROM
noun · 78% connection
a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system); a large amount of digital information can be stored an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Cipolin
noun · 78% connection
A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Coccolite
noun · 78% connection
A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Compact disc read-only memory
noun · 78% connection
a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system); a large amount of digital information can be stored an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Diallage
noun · 78% connection
A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Diopside
noun · 78% connection
A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Enstatite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Fassaite
noun · 78% connection
A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Hardness
noun · 78% connection
The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measure…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Inwrought
p. p. / a. · 78% connection
Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with fi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
Jeffersonite
noun · 78% connection
A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: soft, compact, variety, talc, altered.
