Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mineral consisting chiefly of silicate of bismuth, found at Schneeberg in Saxony.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also culytine.

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  • noun mineralogy A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • And Rose paused that they might listen to the following burst of eloquence from Mac's lips: "You know Frenzal has shown that the globular forms of silicate of bismuth at Schneeburg and Johanngeorgenstadt are not isometric, but monoclinic in crystalline form, and consequently he separates them from the old eulytite and gives them the new name Agricolite."

    Rose in Bloom 1876

  • "You know Frenzal has shown that the globular forms of silicate of bismuth at Schneeburg and Johanngeorgenstadt are not isometric, but monoclinic in crystalline form, and consequently he separates them from the old eulytite and gives them the new name Agricolite.?

    Rose In Bloom Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1876

  • Mac's lips: "You know Frenzal has shown that the globular forms of silicate of bismuth at Schneeburg and Johanngeorgenstadt are not isometric, but monoclinic in crystalline form, and consequently he separates them from the old eulytite and gives them the new name

    Rose in Bloom Louisa May Alcott 1860

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