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Definition of Chlorite
1. Noun. A generally green or black mineral; it occurs as a constituent of many rocks typically in the form of a flat crystal.
Definition of Chlorite
1. n. The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia.
2. n. Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.
Definition of Chlorite
1. Noun. (minerology) A dark green mineral resembling serpentine, being a mixed silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminium. ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) Any salt of chlorous acid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chlorite
1. a mineral group [n -S]
Medical Definition of Chlorite
1. A salt of chlorous acid; the radical ClO2-. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chlorite
Literary usage of Chlorite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1859)
"The nature of the conversion of chlorite-slate into mica-slate is still obscure,
for there is no pseudomorph indicating the conversion of chlorite into mica ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1873)
"It remains to examine into a number of peculiar associations between chlorite
and corundum, in order to point out their relation to that of the entire ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Starting with a gas supply of" 97 to 98 pc contains 55-&Í pc chlorine, and this
is absorbed in bleach chambers. chlorite, or it may be absorbed in sodium ..."
4. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by ROBERT. JAMESON (1820)
"Earthy chlorite, Common chlorite, Slaty chlorite, and Foliated chlorite. ...
chlorite in a loose form ; Peach of the Cornish Miners, Kirn'. vol. ip 147. ..."
5. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Sir Henry A Miers, Henry A[lexander] Miers (1902)
"THE chlorite GROUP chlorite Group.—Silicates of magnesia (or iron) and alumina,
containing also about 12 per cent water, which is given oft' at a high ..."
6. The World's Minerals by Leonard James Spencer, William David Hamman (1916)
"They are characteristically of a green color, the name chlorite meaning, ...
They also occur in some schistose rocks, and in chlorite-schist (in Plate 38, ..."
7. Outlines of Mineralogy by John Kidd (1809)
"chlorite is so called from its colour; which is a dark dull green. ... Small Foliated,
or Scaly chlorite. The foliated or scaly particles of this variety ..."
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