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Definition of Natrolite
1. Noun. A group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum.
Definition of Natrolite
1. n. A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda.
Definition of Natrolite
1. Noun. (minerology) A fibrous zeolite mineral, being a sodium aluminosilicate, of the chemical formula Na2Al2Si3O10'''·'''2H2O. ¹
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Definition of Natrolite
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Literary usage of Natrolite
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)
"This would agree with the known conversion of nephelin into natrolite,* which is
... The frequent occurrence of natrolite in cavities and fissures in ..."
2. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"THE natrolite GROUP natrolite. — Hydrated silicate of sodium and ... natrolite is
the commonest of the fibrous zeolites ; it sometimes occurs in the ..."
3. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"O) natrolite occurs in acicular crystals, and in radial fibrous, granular and dense
... O9 15.40 9.63 99.83 natrolite is orthorhombic (bipyramidal class), ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"In thin section it is often found associated with natrolite, fibrous aggregates
of which it frequently includes (see Fig. 25). It is isotropic, occasionally ..."
5. Lectures on Mineralogy by Thomas Egleston (1872)
"These masses of natrolite often resemble those of Stilbite, but the latter ...
As this cleavage is not found in natrolite, the fracture is simply fibrous, ..."
6. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"An iron-natrolite having the alumina partly replaced by ferric oxide, and the
soda by ferrous and manganous oxides, occurs, together with ..."
7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1900)
"Two other experiments upon natrolite remain to be noticed. First, the fresh
mineral was ... Similar treatment ol ignited natrolite took out о 62 per cent. ..."
8. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"natrolite and thomsonite occur in prisms or fibers with parallel extinction, but
in natrolite the prism axis is parallel to Z and the double refraction is ..."
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