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Definition of Stilbite
1. n. A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.
Definition of Stilbite
1. Noun. (minerology) A tectosilicate zeolite mineral consisting of hydrated calcium aluminium silicate, common in volcanic rocks. ¹
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Definition of Stilbite
1. a mineral [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stilbite
Literary usage of Stilbite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"According to this formula, stilbite is very nearly related to ... and the protoxide,
HO, consisting, in stilbite, of lime with тегу little alkali ..."
2. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1855)
"In this alteration some silica, alumina, and water are eliminated, while lime is
substituted in their place. stilbite.—Among 19 analyses of this mineral ..."
3. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"THE stilbite GROUP stilbite.—Hydrated silicate of calcium and aluminium ; CaAl.
... stilbite is found in beautiful crystals in the ..."
4. Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology, Containing the Elements of the Science by James Dwight Dana (1878)
"Distinguished from gypsum by its hardness ; from apophyllite and stilbite by its
crystals ; and from the latter species also in not occurring in ..."
5. Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology: Containing the Elements of the Science by James Dwight Dana (1886)
"'Distinguished from gypsum by its hardness ; from apophyllite and stilbite by
its crystals ; and from the latter species also in not occurring in radiated ..."
6. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1868)
"I calcite, heulandite ! ! natrolite, mesolite, stilbite ! Jogging, coal t.-~f
tite, limonite; malachite and tetrahedrite at Seaman's Brook; Partridge Island ..."
7. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"Sheaf-like Aggregates of stilbite. like aggregates (Fig. 248), in radiating
bundles and in thin platy prisms. Its composition calculated from the formula ..."
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