Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral of a pearly luster, a greenish color, and a laminated structure. It is a variety of serpentine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A thin, laminated variety of serpentine, usually of a pale green color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A form of
chrysotile
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Examples
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The variety of serpentine known as marmolite, which is made up of numberless plates of the mineral packed together similar to mica, but of the green color of the serpentine picolite, or fibrous serpentine, also frequently occurs of a light grass green color, and is a very interesting variety.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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The variety known as marmolite, which splits into thin leaves, is plentiful and often well worth removing.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Various
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