Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In mineralogy and geology, having a distinctly crystalline granular structure, some-what resembling that of lump-sugar.
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- adjective Having a texture similar to that of granulated sugar. Used of rocks and minerals.
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Examples
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Even the whitest saccharoidal or statuary marble, which it has not coloured, it has created by the crystallisation of the limestone associated with it.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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They are micaceous strata; and thus the true cipollino is a mixture of talcose schist with white saccharoidal marble, and may be said to form a transition link between marble and common stone.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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On other spots, instead of silex, carbonate of lime was precipitated, together with more or less of the nucaceous sediment, and gave rise to saccharoidal limestones.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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This rock in places assumes the character of white granular quartz (saccharoidal quartz of the mineralogist) and attains sufficient purity to be used in the manufacture of glass.
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Page 42 quartz, compact, or saccharoidal, it is far from being universally so, nor is the occurrence of these auriferous rocks limited to veins.
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Machinery has been put up, however, near Brackettown for the purpose of working one of these saccharoidal veins, which seems to be nearly a foot in thickness.
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At the entrance of the Quebrada Seca we remarked great masses of primitive saccharoidal limestone, tolerably fine grained, of a bluish tint, and traversed by veins of calcareous spar of dazzling whiteness.
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In Europe beds of primitive limestone are generally observed in the mica-slates; but we find also saccharoidal limestone in gneiss of the most ancient formation, in
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Between the spring of Sanchorquiz and the Cross of La Guayra, as well as still higher up, the gneiss contains considerable beds of saccharoidal bluish-grey primitive limestone, coarse-grained, containing mica, and traversed by veins of white calcareous spar.
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Origin of granular or saccharoidal marble, silicification of schist into ribbon jasper.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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