Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A basic sulphate of copper occurring in blue earthy crusts, less often in crystals, found in Cornwall, England.
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- noun mineralogy A monoclinic-domatic
mineral containingcopper ,hydrogen ,oxygen , andsulfur .
Etymologies
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Mention may be here made of another orthorhombic basic copper sulphate not unlike brochantite in general characters, but differing from it in containing water of crystallization and in its fine blue colour; this is the Cornish mineral langite, which has the composition
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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