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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mineralogy, a phosphate containing fluorin as an essential part.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.
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- noun chemistry A
double salt of fluoric acid andphosphoric acid .
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Thus the sulphate constitutes the minerals anhydrite, alabaster, gypsum, and selenite; the carbonate occurs dissolved in most natural waters and as the minerals chalk, marble, calcite, aragonite; also in the double carbonates such as dolomite, bromlite, barytocalcite; the fluoride as fluorspar; the fluophosphate constitutes the mineral apatite; while all the more important mineral silicates contain a proportion of this element.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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