Definition of Saponites

1. Noun. (plural of saponite) ¹

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Definition of Saponites

1. saponite [n] - See also: saponite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saponites

saponifiable
saponification
saponification number
saponifications
saponified
saponifier
saponifiers
saponifies
saponify
saponifying
saponin
saponine
saponines
saponins
saponite
saponites (current term)
saponul
saponule
saponules
sapor
saporific
saporosity
saporous
sapors
sapota
sapotaceous
sapotas
sapote
sapotes
sapour

Literary usage of Saponites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips, Robert Etheridge (1885)
"... the iron is small in quantity and the water large. The saponites are regarded as products of the decomposition of augite and olivine. ..."

2. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips, Robert Etheridge, Harry Govier Seeley (1885)
"... is richer in silica and poor in alumina; the iron is small in quantity and the water large. The saponites are regarded as products of the decomposition ..."

3. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"He places certain other minerals, *hich have previously been looked upon as belonging to the Chlorite group, in a separate class under the head of saponites ..."

4. Mineralogy and Chemistry by John Lawrence Smith (1873)
"The original analysis of Dr. Owen, with the exception of the new earth, does not differ very materially from the above, when we consider that the saponites ..."

5. The Tertiary Igneous Rocks of Skye by Alfred Harker (1904)
"... division of the saponites as distinguished from the chlorites proper: indeed he has identified the species saponite from more than one locality. ..."

6. Original Researches in Mineralogy and Chemistry by John Lawrence Smith (1884)
"... it was allowed to dry for a greater length of time—it being a common thing for saponites to lose more or less of their water by desiccation in the air. ..."

7. The Geology of the Small Isles of Inverness-shire: (Rum, Canna, Eigg, Muck by Alfred Harker, George Barrow (1908)
"and he attached it to the "saponites" as distinguished from the chlorites. Its non-aluminous nature, however, would seem to separate it equally from both ..."

8. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips, Robert Etheridge (1885)
"... the iron is small in quantity and the water large. The saponites are regarded as products of the decomposition of augite and olivine. ..."

9. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips, Robert Etheridge, Harry Govier Seeley (1885)
"... is richer in silica and poor in alumina; the iron is small in quantity and the water large. The saponites are regarded as products of the decomposition ..."

10. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"He places certain other minerals, *hich have previously been looked upon as belonging to the Chlorite group, in a separate class under the head of saponites ..."

11. Mineralogy and Chemistry by John Lawrence Smith (1873)
"The original analysis of Dr. Owen, with the exception of the new earth, does not differ very materially from the above, when we consider that the saponites ..."

12. The Tertiary Igneous Rocks of Skye by Alfred Harker (1904)
"... division of the saponites as distinguished from the chlorites proper: indeed he has identified the species saponite from more than one locality. ..."

13. Original Researches in Mineralogy and Chemistry by John Lawrence Smith (1884)
"... it was allowed to dry for a greater length of time—it being a common thing for saponites to lose more or less of their water by desiccation in the air. ..."

14. The Geology of the Small Isles of Inverness-shire: (Rum, Canna, Eigg, Muck by Alfred Harker, George Barrow (1908)
"and he attached it to the "saponites" as distinguished from the chlorites. Its non-aluminous nature, however, would seem to separate it equally from both ..."

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