Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hydrated phosphate of calcium found in the guano of Aves Islands and Sombrero in the West Indies, in slender monoclinic crystals of a pale-yellow color.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy A mineral formed by the interaction of guano with calcite and clay at a low pH, believed to be a precursor of apatite.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.
Etymologies
- Brush + -ite after American mineralogist George Jarvis Brush (1831-1912). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Arsenate is removed by being exchanged for phosphate in the mineral brushite, a crystalline structure found in the stones.”
“The mineral brushite, CaHPO_4·2H_2O, which is isomorphous with the acid arsenate pharmacolite, CaHAsO_4·2H_2O, is an acid phosphate, and assumes monoclinic forms.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
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Brushes
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hernesheir The mineralogists were right, about the shite.
See also metabrushite. Jan 3, 2012