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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: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
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: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Aurichalcite
noun · 78% connection
A hydrous carbonate of copper and zinc, found in pale green or blue crystalline aggregations. It yields a kind of brass on reduction.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Beryl
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Bicarbonate
noun · 78% connection
A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Blende
noun · 78% connection
A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains so…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Borax
noun · 78% connection
A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Botryogen
noun · 78% connection
A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Brass
noun · 78% connection
An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Cadmia
noun · 78% connection
An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Cadmium
noun · 78% connection
A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Calcareous
adjective · 78% connection
Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Calcimine
noun · 78% connection
A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc whit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Calcite
noun · 78% connection
Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Calomel
noun · 78% connection
Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Chlorite
noun · 78% connection
The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Dezincification
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of freeing from zinc; also, the condition resulting from the removal of zinc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
Dolomite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive be…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: native, zinc, carbonate, generally, occurs.
