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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fluosilicate of aluminium, occurring in glassy transparent tetrahedral crystals of the hardness of quartz: found at the Zuñi mine in Colorado.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A fluosilicate of alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals at the
Zuñi mine in Colorado.
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- noun mineralogy A fluorosilicate mineral of
alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals, chemical formula Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl.
Etymologies
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Named after the Zuni mine, in Colorado.
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