Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white or yellow lustrous zeolite mineral, essentially (Ca,Na)2Al2Si7O18·7H2O.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common zeolitic mineral, usually occurring in radiated or sheaf-like tufts of crystals having a pearly luster on the surface of cleavage.
- noun The mineral heulandite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also
desmine .
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- noun mineralogy A
tectosilicate zeolite mineral consisting ofhydrated calcium aluminium silicate , common involcanic rocks.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The crystals measure up to a yard across, and are rhombohedral or scalenohedral in habit; their faces are usually dull and corroded or coated with stilbite.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Heulandite is distinguished from stilbite by its crystals and perfect solubility; from apopholite by form of crystals.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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Natrolite resembles stilbite, but may be distinguished by gelatinizing readily with hydrochloric acid and by not intumescing when heated before the blowpipe; from the other minerals by the form of the crystals and their setting, also the locality in the tunnel in which it was found.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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A little stilbite may often be found on the dumps.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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Grand Marrias (now near Fort Wilkins) we obtained from the shore of the inner bay, agates, stilbite, and smoky quartz, &c.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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At the _Grand Marrias_ (now near Fort Wilkins) we obtained from the shore of the inner bay, agates, stilbite, and smoky quartz, &c.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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