Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A mineral, usually of a pale-green color and vitreous luster, commonly occurring in botryoidal or globular forms with crystalline surface.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
mineral , a basiccalcium ,aluminium andiron aluminosilicate , which occurs in stalagtiticaggregates orcurved crystals ,Ca 2Al 2Si 3O 10(OH )2.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The best specimens are afforded by the beautifully developed transparent glassy crystals, found with albite, prehnite and quartz, in a zone of amphibolite and chlorite-schists at Le Bourg d'Oisans in Dauphiné.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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The art that softens life's hard edges for Bowes comes from rock and metal, from agates, prehnite, jasper, tourmalinated quartz and silver, which she cuts and hand forges into jewelry.
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The art that softens life's hard edges for Bowes comes from rock and metal, from agates, prehnite, jasper, tourmalinated quartz and silver, which she cuts and hand forges into jewelry.
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-- "By the way, I received from Dr. Torrey a curious mixture of petrosilex and prehnite in radiating crystals, which was sent him by you, and collected at the West.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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_ -- "By the way, I received from Dr. Torrey a curious mixture of petrosilex and prehnite in radiating crystals, which was sent him by you, and collected at the West.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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