Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fibrous variety of brucite, or native hydrate of magnesium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A fibrous variety of brucite.
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- noun mineralogy A
fibrous variety ofbrucite .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Two forms of it occur; the one, nemalite, is in fibers of a white to brown color resembling asbestos, but the fibers are brittle, and hardly as fine as a typical asbestos.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Various
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The specimens of nemalite may be more readily obtained than the brucite but fine specimens of both may be obtained after finding a vein of it, by cutting away the rock, which is not hard to do, as it is in layers and masses packed together, and which maybe wedged out in large masses at a time with the cold chisel and hammer, perhaps at the rate of three or four cubic feet an hour for the first hour, and in rapidly decreasing rate as progress is made toward the unweathered rock and untouched brucite, etc.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Various
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