arragonite

Where the lime has been caught up by the scoriaceous fragments of the lower surface of the stream, it is converted into groups of beautifully radiated fibres resembling arragonite.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Where the lime has been caught up by the scoriaceous fragments of the lower surface of the stream, it is converted into groups of beautifully radiated fibres resembling arragonite.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Where the lime has been caught up by the scoriaceous fragments of the lower surface of the stream, it is converted into groups of beautifully radiated fibres resembling arragonite.

Chapter I 1909

The carbonate (CaCO_ {3}), found as limestone, chalk, and other rocks, and as the minerals calcite and arragonite, is the most commonly occurring compound.

A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

Nor can there be a question of its being arragonite, because this mineral might indeed fall asunder "of itself," but in that case the newly-formed powder ought to be crystalline.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

Lloyd, taking a crystal of arragonite, and following with the most scrupulous exactness the indications of theory, cutting the crystal where theory said it ought to be cut, observing it where theory said it ought to be observed, discovered the luminous envelope which had previously been a mere idea in the mind of the mathematician.

Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856

The vases which the visitor is about to examine are carved in different materials, the more costly and highly finished being of arragonite, and the less important, in wood, stone, or clay.

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

Amid another group of fragments, the visitor should remark particularly an arragonite torso (121); the upper part of an officer, holding a standard (122); and a red granite bust of a monarch wearing the neumis

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

That of the former, marked 3, is covered with the figures of Egyptian divinities and inscriptions to the deceased; that of the latter, in arragonite, is in the form of a mummy, like those first examined by the visitor.

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

The arragonite vases are the most expensive, and, as we have remarked the most highly finished; but the visitor may notice also those in coarser material.

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855