Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A term employed by J. W. Judd to designate a change in crystals, consisting in the development along certain planes of tabular, bacillar, or stellar inclosures, which, reflecting the light falling upon them, give rise to a submetallic sheen as the crystal is turned in various directions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) The act or process of producing schiller in a mineral mass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy The act or process of producing
schiller in amineral mass .
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The ferriferous varieties are liable to a particular kind of alteration, known as "schillerization," which results in the separation of the iron as very fine films of oxide and hydroxides along the cleavage cracks of the mineral.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Here, in addition to schillerization, the original enstatite has been altered by hydration and the product has approximately the composition of serpentine.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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