Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mineral consisting mainly of manganese carbonate, MnCO3, light pink to rose-red in color with a pearly or vitreous luster, used as a manganese ore.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native manganese protocarbonate, a mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, or massive with rhombohedral cleavage, usually of a delicate rose-red color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage like calcite; -- called also
dialogite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
crystalline mineral composed mainly of manganese carbonateMn C O 3.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mineral consisting of manganese carbonate; a source of manganese
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The swordsman was excited to discover that the floor was paved not with slabs of granite or even marble, but with semiprecious stone such as rhodochrosite and lapis, agate and onyx.
A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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One of the finest rhodochrosite specimens in the world, and one of the finest minerals overall in the world.
In Pictures: Highlights Of Marc Weill's Mineral Collection Missy Sullivan 2006
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Like iron ores, manganese ores consist principally of the oxides of manganese (pyrolusite, psilomelane, manganite, wad, and others), and rarely the carbonate of manganese (rhodochrosite).
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As reported in Almaden's news release of July 5th, 2010, the veins are composed of banded fine grained quartz, calcite, rhodochrosite and sulphides which display textures typical of classic low sulphidation epithermal veins.
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The first whole was lost in deep overburden however the second hole has intersected multiple banded quartz-adularia-rhodochrosite-sulphide veins which will be sampled and submitted for analytical analysis in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 procedures.
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The epitome of South African rhodochrosite is represented by gemmy, deep red scalenohedral crystals in solid clusters such as the beautiful 9. 5-cm example pictured here.
Museum Blogs 2009
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The epitome of South African rhodochrosite is represented by gemmy, deep red scalenohedral crystals in solid clusters such as the beautiful 9. 5-cm example pictured here.
Museum Blogs 2009
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The epitome of South African rhodochrosite is represented by gemmy, deep red scalenohedral crystals in solid clusters such as the beautiful 9. 5-cm example pictured here.
Museum Blogs 2009
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Manganese produces the pink color of rhodochrosite, (manganese carbonate).
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Manganese produces the pink color of rhodochrosite, (manganese carbonate).
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