Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name of a group of minerals, most of which have a grass-green to olive-green color, and a micaceous structure.
- noun In chem., a salt of chlorous acid. The chlorites are remarkable for their strong bleaching and oxidizing properties.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia.
- noun a schistose or slaty rock consisting of alumina, iron, and magnesia.
- noun (Chem.) Any salt of chlorous acid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A dark green
mineral resemblingserpentine , being a mixedsilicate ofmagnesium ,iron andaluminium . - noun chemistry Any
salt ofchlorous acid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a generally green or black mineral; it occurs as a constituent of many rocks typically in the form of a flat crystal
Etymologies
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Examples
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Basically, a process called metamorphism caused the basalts in Shenandoah to recrystallize with new minerals, such as chlorite, epidote, and albite, which help give the rocks their greenish hue.
The Killing Hour Gardner, Lisa 2003
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Some of the elaborately carved chlorite vessels from Jiroft are inlaid with semiprecious stones.
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The false cenotaph in the public upper chamber was in white marble, the color of freshly drawn milk, inlaid profusely with stylized flowers in tiers—a lapis lazuli blue, a jasper red, a bloodstone black, an agate and sard brown, a carnelian orange, a chlorite and jade green, and a yellow limestone.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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The false cenotaph in the public upper chamber was in white marble, the color of freshly drawn milk, inlaid profusely with stylized flowers in tiers—a lapis lazuli blue, a jasper red, a bloodstone black, an agate and sard brown, a carnelian orange, a chlorite and jade green, and a yellow limestone.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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The false cenotaph in the public upper chamber was in white marble, the color of freshly drawn milk, inlaid profusely with stylized flowers in tiers—a lapis lazuli blue, a jasper red, a bloodstone black, an agate and sard brown, a carnelian orange, a chlorite and jade green, and a yellow limestone.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Sodium chlorite (NaClO2) isn't chlorine dioxide (ClO2) by Michael Lusk on Wednesday, Apr 29, 2009 at 6: 11: 26 PM
Stopping a Flu Pandemic: Is King Xerxes Thrashing the Waves? 2009
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Make sure they contain chlorine dioxide, zinc ion or sodium chlorite.
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We also discovered bones, stone tools, pieces of carbonized wood, and a bead made of chlorite.
Picture 121 « Field Notes 2008 « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project 2008
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Visitors may recognize other hallmark Minoan artifacts in the show: clay tablets inscribed with the still-undeciphered Linear A writing, a bull's head rhyton carved from chlorite with gilded horns, and the "Chieftain's Cup," a carved steatite conical cup with processional scene (see photo gallery).
Minoans in Manhattan 2008
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We also discovered bones, stone tools, pieces of carbonized wood, and a bead made of chlorite.
Picture 142 « Field Notes 2008 « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project 2008
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