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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fluosilicate of aluminium, occurring in glassy transparent tetrahedral crystals of the hardness of quartz: found at the Zuñi mine in Colorado.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy A fluorosilicate mineral of alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals, chemical formula Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A fluosilicate of alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals at the
Zuñi mine in Colorado.
Etymologies
- Named after the Zuni mine, in Colorado. (Wiktionary)
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