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Illinition :: Illinition (n.) A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals.

Crystallite :: Crystallite (n.) A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc..

Jargonic :: Jargonic (a.) Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.

Thulium :: Thulium (n.) A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite..

Iodyrite :: Iodyrite (n.) Silver iodide, a mineral of a yellowish color..

Aragonite :: Aragonite (n.) A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters..

Halloysite :: Halloysite (n.) A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color..

Brewsterite :: Brewsterite (n.) A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia..

Cerargyrite :: Cerargyrite (n.) Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver)..

Herborize :: Herborize (v. t.) To form the figures of plants in; -- said in reference to minerals. See Arborized.

Mellitic :: Mellitic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the mineral mellite..

Hypersthene :: Hypersthene (n.) An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface..

Jarosite :: Jarosite (n.) An ocher-yellow mineral occurring on minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash.

Glairin :: Glairin (n.) A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin..

Borax :: Borax (n.) 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 as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O..

Systematizer :: Systematize (v. t.) To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas..

Stanno- :: Stannite (n.) A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron..

Epistilbite :: Epistilbite (n.) A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime..

Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..

Chromite :: Chromite (n.) A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.

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