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Definition of Cimolite
1. n. A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.
Definition of Cimolite
1. Noun. (minerology) A soft clayey mineral of whitish or greyish colour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cimolite
1. a type of clay [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cimolite
Literary usage of Cimolite
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 (1855)
"Kaolin and cimolite are the only ones in which crystalline form indicates the
minerals from which they have originated. Kaolin occurs with the forms of ..."
2. What to Observe: Or, The Traveller's Remembrancer by Julian R. Jackson (1841)
"... still retain the form of the felspar; they being in fact nothing more than a
decomposition of that mineral. cimolite, (so called from ..."
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