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Definition of Desmine
1. n. Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.
Definition of Desmine
1. Noun. (minerology) The mineral stilbite. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Desmine
1. the mineral stilbite [n -S]
Medical Definition of Desmine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Desmine
Literary usage of Desmine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"desmine. Monoclinic. Axes a : b : с = 0-7623 : 1 : 1-1940; /3 = 50° 50'.
Crystals uniformly cruciform penetration-twins with tw. pi. с (001), analogous to ..."
2. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush, Edward Salisbury Dana (1885)
"... Breit- haupt separated the two zeolites, and called the former desmine and the
... by him in place of desmine, it being the typical part of his species. ..."
3. Instructions for the Discrimination of Minerals: By Simple Chemical Experiments by Franz von Kobell, Robert Corbert Campbell (1841)
"Heulandite, desmine, and ... system of Stilbite (Heulandite) is. oblique prismatic;
that of desmine (Stilbite), ..."
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