Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rare mineral, having a leaf-like cleavage, usually occurring in masses of a milk-white color, often tinged with gray, red, or green.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and in cleavable masses, usually white, or nearly so, in color. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A rare
pegmatitic mineral , alithium aluminosilicate , with thechemical formula Li Al Si 4O 10; used in the manufacture ofcrystallized glass ceramics .
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Examples
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Lithium was first found in the mineral called petalite (LiAl (Si2O5) 2, lithium aluminum silicate.
Lithium 2009
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These sources are less expensive to mine than from rock such as spodumene, petalite, and other lithium-bearing minerals.
Lithium 2009
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However, there are a number of minerals that contain significant amounts of cesium, including mica, beryl, feldspar, petalite, and pollucite.
Cesium 2008
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Dürkheim; it is also found in lepidolite, leucite, petalite, triphylline and in the carnallite from Stassfurt.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Lithia, the oxide of lithium (Li_ {2} O), occurs in quantities of 3 or 4 per cent. in various silicates, such as lepidolite (or lithia-mica), spodumene, and petalite.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Applications for petalite are expanding rapidly and like many other specialty mineral products, supply is not keeping pace with the increase in demand creating opportunities for new suppliers to enter the market.
unknown title 2011
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The Separation Rapids property, located 70 km north of Kenora, Ontario, is host to the world class "Big Whopper Pegmatite", a very large resource of the rare lithium mineral petalite, with associated tantalum and rubidium minerals.
unknown title 2011
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In 1800, a Brazilian chemist visiting a mine on the Swedish island of Utö discovered crystalline minerals he named spodumene and petalite, both of which we now know are compounds of aluminum, silicon, and lithium.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Seventeen years later, Johan August Arfwedson, a young Swedish chemist working in the lab of Jöns Jacob Berzelius, broke petalite down into a lithium salt, which earned him credit as the discoverer of the element.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The old Chinese dude is dead, but the memory of his perfect bread, baked in a petalite and feldspar oven remains.
The Malay Male 2009
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