Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral consisting of the sulphate and carbonate of sodium, found in transparent whitish hexagonal crystals at Borax lake in California.
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- noun mineralogy A hexagonal-dipyramidal
mineral containingcarbon ,chlorine ,oxygen ,potassium ,sodium , andsulfur .
Etymologies
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Bill Bilodeau looks at a piece of hanksite that he got from Searles Lake in
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