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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Hydrous magnesium carbonate, MgCO3 + 3H2O, occurring in orthorhombic crystals and white fibrous masses: found in a coal-mine at Nesquehoning. Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and similarly elsewhere.
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- noun mineralogy
Magnesium carbonate trihydrate .
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