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Definition of Phillipsite
1. Noun. A group of white or reddish crystalline minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium and aluminum.
Definition of Phillipsite
1. n. A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite.
Definition of Phillipsite
1. Noun. (minerology) A mineral of the zeolite group, a hydrated potassium, calcium and aluminium silicate with monoclinic crystals. ¹
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Medical Definition of Phillipsite
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Literary usage of Phillipsite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"Crystals of phillipsite have been produced by heating potassium aluminate and
silicate in a closed glass tube at 200°. Localities. ..."
2. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1898)
"phillipsite. spinel (Fig. 360), since 5 X 70° 32' = 360° (approx.). ... 3G2 of
phillipsite (cf. Figs. 422-424) is an interesting case, since it shows how a ..."
3. A Treatise on Mineralogy by Charles Upham Shepard (1857)
"... the only difference observed being in the inclination of a : a, which according
Marignac is 120° 4'... 121° 20'. *phillipsite, Leny ..."
4. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1827)
"Notice of some Remarkable Twin-Crystals of phillipsite. By BAKON VON BEUST of
Dresden. With Observations by W. HAIDINGER, Esq. FRSE . ..."
5. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1827)
"Notice of some Remarkable Twin-Crystals of phillipsite. By BARON VON BEUST of
Dresden. With Observations by W. HAIDINGER, Esq. FRSE the village of ..."
6. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1890)
"He consequently makes all the crystals Orthorhombic, and closely related to
phillipsite. But v. Lang has shown that the crystals are not twins, ..."
7. Rock Minerals, Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1906)
"Monoclinic; in crystals very similar to those of phillipsite in habit and angles;
compound twins. It is also similar in optical properties. ..."
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