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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In mineralogy, a silicate of beryllium, calcium, and sodium, occurring in honey-yellow or sulphur-yellow plates in the zircon-syenite of Norway. The name is changed, in Dana's system, to meliphanite (meliphane).

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