Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A white, yellow, or green pellucid mineral of the zeolite family, occurring in short prismatic crystals; a hydrous silicate of aluminium, strontium, and barium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy Any of a
series ofhydrothermal tectosilicate minerals of thezeolite group.
Etymologies
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Brewster + -ite after Sir David Brewster, who described it in 1822.
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