Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mineral resin found in Ione valley, Amador county, California.

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Examples

  • In the passage outside, they began loading the lorries with bricks of ionite and packages of cataclysmite, packing all the scrap-iron and other junk around the explosives that they could.

    The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Note: "non-ebonite link" -- that should be "non-Eb ionite link" (judging by the links).

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

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