Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white mineral, NaCaB5O9·8H2O, that forms rounded masses of very fine needle-shaped crystals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrous borate of calcium and sodium, occurring in loose rounded masses with fibrous structure and white color. Also called
boronatrocalcite , natroborocalcite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral occurring in white rounded crystalline masses. It is a hydrous borate of lime and soda.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A white
mineral withtriclinic crystals,Na Ca B 5O 9·8H2O.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This reminds me somewhat of 'TV rock' (a. k.a television stone), a form of the borate ulexite.
Fibre optics - the bear facts Ray Girvan 2004
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The May 1998 Contraption also features ulexite, along with interesting UV-sensitive beads and nail varnish.
Archive 2004-04-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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A ulexite student project led me to the work of Daniel Koon, an associate professor of physics at St. Lawrence University, New York.
Archive 2004-04-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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This reminds me somewhat of 'TV rock' (a. k.a television stone), a form of the borate ulexite.
Archive 2004-04-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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The May 1998 Contraption also features ulexite, along with interesting UV-sensitive beads and nail varnish.
Fibre optics - the bear facts Ray Girvan 2004
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A ulexite student project led me to the work of Daniel Koon, an associate professor of physics at St. Lawrence University, New York.
Fibre optics - the bear facts Ray Girvan 2004
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The salts contained in these deposits are mainly borax, ulexite, and colemanite.
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The principal boron minerals are borax or "tincal" (hydrated sodium borate), colemanite (hydrated calcium borate), ulexite (hydrated calcium-sodium borate), and boracite (magnesium chloro-borate).
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The soda-lime borate ulexite occurs as irregular balls, rough on the outside, but found on breaking to consist entirely of white, silky, radiating annular crystals.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903
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It can be found in the ores ulexite and borax (yes, that borax).
Green Options 2010
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