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Definition of Fuchsite
1. a bright green mica [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fuchsite
Literary usage of Fuchsite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1905)
"fuchsite or chrome-mica.—This is characterized by its green color due to the
presence of chromium sesquioxide. The hardness of the muscovites varies from 2 ..."
2. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1917)
"In view of the known resistance to ordinary weathering of all forms of Muscovite,
including fuchsite,* the active agent in ..."
3. Elements of Optical Mineralogy: An Introduction to Microscopic Petrography by Newton Horace Winchell, Alexander Newton Winchell (1908)
"fuchsite is a variety of muscovite containing Cr2O3, replacing Al.,Os(to 4%).
... fuchsite is found in micaceous quartzites, mica-schists, and sparingly in ..."
4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1849)
"In fuchsite or Chrome- mica a portion of the alumina is replaced by sesquioxide of
... 46, 325) describes fuchsite as being found in compact, scaly, ..."
5. The Rocks of Cape Colville Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand by William Johnson Sollas, Alexander McKay (1906)
"UM—A foliated aggregate of grains of quartz and felspar, of fuchsite ami ...
fuchsite Schist. Photographed by polarised light ; magnification, 33 diameters ..."
6. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1851)
"The amount of potash substituted by soda and magnesia, is also much greater in
the Irish specimen than in the fuchsite. In the former lime is also present, ..."
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