Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, a phaneric, granular igneous rock composed of orthorhombic and monoclinic pyroxenes; a variety of pyroxenite.
- noun Aluminite; hydrous tribasic sulphate of aluminium, found in Sussex, England, and at Halle in Prussia, in reniform masses and botryoidal concretions of a white or yellowish-white color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hydrous
aluminium sulfate mineral with formula Al2SO4(OH)4·7(H2O).
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Norway; Lady Chantrey's specimen of part of a coniferous tree, semi-opalised; and a mass of websterite from Newhaven, Sussex.
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