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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mineralogy, a hydrous silicate of aluminium, calcium, and potassium, commonly found in cruciform twin crystals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also
christianite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
mineral of thezeolite group, a hydratedpotassium ,calcium andaluminium silicate withmonoclinic crystals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a group of white or reddish crystalline minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium and aluminum
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