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- noun mineralogy
serpentine
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Examples
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The Serpentosphere is typically about two kilometers thick beneath ocean basins where it is mainly composed of lizardite.
At it Again Silver Fox 2008
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In the transition and saprolitic ores, nickel also occurs in lizardite, talc and saponite, a montmorillonite clay.
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