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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of the sodalite group of minerals which occurs in pale reddish-violet dodecahedrons in the rock called tawite from the Tawa valley, Kola Peninsula, Lapland. It is near sodalite in composition but contains also the radical NaS.

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