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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native fluoride of aluminium, calcium, and sodium, found with cryolite in Greenland, and also in Colorado: so called in allusion to the frost-like appearance of the crystals.
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- noun mineralogy A monoclinic-prismatic
mineral containingaluminum ,calcium ,fluorine ,hydrogen ,oxygen , andsodium .
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