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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white or light-colored zeolite, NaAlSi2O6·H2O, found in certain basalts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A white or flesh-red mineral, of the zeolite family, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires
a weak electricity; hence its name.
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- noun mineralogy A
mineral , asodium aluminosilicate with achemical formula Na Al Si 2O 6·H2O, having azeolite structure, found inalkaline basalts .
Etymologies
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The minerals referred to are analcime, chabazite, Thompsonite, and finally, the mineral which I first found in this formation, Hayesine, which is extremely rare, and of which
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of Teneriffe; for a reddish-grey lava, which we found on the slope of Monte Verde, and which contains small microscopic crystals, appears to me to be a close mixture of basalt and analcime.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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1983, Selective concentration of cesium in analcime during hydrothermal alteration, Yellowstone
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