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Definition of Tremolite

1. Noun. A white or pale green mineral (calcium magnesium silicate) of the amphibole group used as a form of asbestos.

Definition of Tremolite

1. n. A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.

Definition of Tremolite

1. Noun. (minerology) A pale grey/green amphibole mineral that is a mixed calcium and magnesium silicate, with the chemical formula Ca₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂; sometimes used in place of asbestos. ¹

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Definition of Tremolite

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Medical Definition of Tremolite

1. A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses. Origin: From Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where it was discovered. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Tremolite

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

1. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"tremolite. — This is a white to pale-green variety of amphibole (see Chapter ... tremolite is found in some crystalline limestones in pieces varying from a ..."

2. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by ROBERT. JAMESON (1820)
"... cross rents, and the rough feel of their powder. Fourth Subspecies. tremolite*. ... Common tremolite, and Glassy Tremo- lite. First Kind. ..."

3. The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana, 1837-1868 by James Dwight Dana, Edward Salisbury Dana (1892)
"Woodcock's mine, near the village of Little York Also palma. tremolite, ... in splendid crystals, with titanite, and feldspar; tremolite in short prismatic ..."

4. An elementary treatise on mineralogy and geology: Being an Introduction to by Parker Cleaveland (1816)
"Three specimens of white tremolite from St. Gothard yielded Laugier silex 41 to 28.4, ... In a common tremolite Lowitz found silex 52, lime 20, magnesia 12, ..."

5. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1905)
"A tremolite-like mineral has been found at many of the corundum localities in North Carolina, in long, slender needles, which penetrate the chrysolite ..."

6. Manual of Determinative Mineralogy: With an Introd. on Blow-pipe Analysis by George Jarvis Brush (1891)
"tremolite. . 1 . Hardness 5.5. Cleavable at an angle of 124n. Finely fibrous with fibres easily separable. Fuses to a black or green glass. Asbestus. ..."

7. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1880)
"tremolite. This variety was only observed in a limestone (Spec. 2086, see § 35). § 12. b. Actinolite. Actinolite composes especially the actinolite-schist, ..."

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