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Definition of Cipolins
1. cipolin [n] - See also: cipolin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cipolins
Literary usage of Cipolins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin de la Société française de minéralogie et de cristallographie by Société minéralogique de France, Société française de minéralogie (1889)
"... et des cipolins. Sur la côte de Ville-ès-Martin, près Saint-Nazaire, on observe
une coupe très instructive en ce qu'elle montre les gneiss ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1901)
"There are certain other rocks in Ceylon which include coarsegrained dolomites
and ' cipolins,' containing blue apatite and contact minerals such as ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... and those schistose cale silicate rocks which are known as cipolins. That these
are sediments which have undergone thermal alteration is generally ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... marbles, calc-schists and cipolins, with crystalline dolomites; many of these
contain silicates such as mica, tremolite, ..."
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