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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A silicate of aluminium and lithium associated with albite as alteration products of spodumene.
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- noun mineralogy A
lithium -bearingaluminium silicate mineral .
Etymologies
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eu- + crypto- + -ite, suggesting well hidden, from its presence among albite.
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