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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A variety of calcite or calcium carbonate: so called from its slaty structure. Also called slate-spar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.

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