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

Mineralize :: Mineralize (v. t.) To transform into a mineral.

Lustre :: Lustre (n.) The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities..

Zoisite :: Zoisite (n.) A grayish or whitish mineral occurring in orthorhombic, prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses. It is a silicate of alumina and lime, and is allied to epidote..

Locality :: Locality (n.) Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant..

Scheelite :: Scheelite (n.) Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization..

Vein :: Vein (n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores..

Greenockite :: Greenockite (n.) Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation..

Aerator :: Aerator (n.) That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

Roscoelite :: Roscoelite (n.) A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.

Monazite :: Monazite (n.) A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals..

Apollinaris Water :: Apollinaris water () An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn..

Mineral :: Mineral (a.) Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters..

Rake :: Rake (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein..

Chrysolite :: Chrysolite (n.) A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz..

Alter :: Alter (v. i.) To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure..

Cimolite :: Cimolite (n.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color..

Boron :: Boron (n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B..

Microlite :: Microlite (n.) A minute inclosed crystal, often observed when minerals or rocks are examined in thin sections under the microscope..

Garnet :: Garnet (n.) A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms..

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