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Linnaeite :: Linnaeite (n.) A mineral of pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, occurring in isometric crystals, and also massive. It is a sulphide of cobalt containing some nickel or copper..

Kerosene :: Kerosene (n.) An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series..

Meerschaum :: Meerschaum (n.) A tobacco pipe made of this mineral.

Thomsonite :: Thomsonite (n.) A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite..

Pyrognostic :: Pyrognostic (a.) Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena..

Mineralogy :: Mineralogy (n.) The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them..

Iodyrite :: Iodyrite (n.) Silver iodide, a mineral of a yellowish color..

Leucophane :: Leucophane (n.) A mineral of a greenish yellow color; it is a silicate of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine. Called also leucophanite..

Vichy Water :: Vichy water () A mineral water found at Vichy, France. It is essentially an effervescent solution of sodium, calcium, and magnetism carbonates, with sodium and potassium chlorides; also, by extension, any artificial or natural water resembling in composition the Vichy water proper. Called also, colloquially, Vichy..

Realgar :: Realgar (n.) Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product..

Vat :: Vat (n.) A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.

Microlite :: Microlite (n.) A rare mineral of resinous luster and high specific gravity. It is a tantalate of calcium, and occurs in octahedral crystals usually very minute..

Okenite :: Okenite (n.) A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime..

Zinkenite :: Zinkenite (n.) A steel-gray metallic mineral, a sulphide of antimony and lead..

Swallow :: Swallet (n.) Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.

Thallium :: Thallium (n.) A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7..

Strontium :: Strontium (n.) A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3..

Pyrite :: Pyrite (n.) A common mineral of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites; iron disulphide..

Sclerometer :: Sclerometer (n.) An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.

Black-jack :: Black-jack (n.) A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende..

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