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Definition of Axinites
1. axinite [n] - See also: axinite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Axinites
Literary usage of Axinites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe Analysis: From a by Alfred Joseph Moses, Charles Lathrop Parsons (1916)
"... are manganiferous amphiboles, pyroxenes, axinites and other species. Manganese is
also an important constituent of franklinite, wolframite, ..."
2. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"... clay slate, and other primitive rocks, with their emeralds, axinites, and
spinel rubies, afford to the mineralogist highly interesting combinations. ..."
3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1854)
"... and axinites of the Oisans, and many others. The privileged richness of the
crystalline limestones in minerals, often strangers to the neighbouring ..."
4. Popular Science News (1902)
"... Cuprite crystals up to an inch, splendid old-time axinites, many rare species
of exceptional merit. OUR DANA COLLECTION, No. ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1911)
"These axinites lie on the epidote and quartz, and also penetrate them to some
extent, some axinite being entirely embedded in the quartz. ..."
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