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Definition of Boracite

1. n. A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

Definition of Boracite

1. Noun. (minerology) A mixed chloride and borate of magnesium that occurs as a white to green crystalline evaporite, with the chemical formula Mg₃B₇O₁₃Cl. ¹

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Definition of Boracite

1. a mineral [n -S]

Medical Definition of Boracite

1. A mineral of a white or gray colour occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boracite

Literary usage of Boracite

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

1. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Sir Henry A Miers, Henry A[lexander] Miers (1902)
"boracite is a comparatively rare mineral found either in massive nodules or isolated crystals in the salt and gypsum deposits of Stassfurt. ..."

2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1848)
"The same phenomenon is to be seen in the particles of the amorphous boracite by pulverising and heating it on a metallic plate. These boracite particles ..."

3. Lectures on Mineralogy: Delivered at the School of Mines, Columbia College by Thomas Egleston (1886)
"The crystals of boracite are remarkable for their ... boracite is- generally colorless, though occasionally it is gray, bluish or greenish. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"Fracture concho'idal, uneven. Pyro-electric, even when massive. (Dana, ii. 393.) boracite was formerly regarded as a borate of magnesium, ..."

5. Petrographic Methods: The Authorized English Translation of Part I by Ernst Weinschenk, Robert Watson Clark (1912)
"In these the original cleavage is sometimes retained. boracite (1) boracite is a rock-forming mineral now and then, ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... and four trigonal angles. The principal axes join the middle points of each two opposite edge«. Examples : i .More, boracite, and ..."

7. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1825)
"Notice of a Remarkable Variety of boracite. By WILLIAM HAIDINGER, Esq. FRS E ... A VERY interesting variety of boracite hasbeen lately discovered at ..."

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