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Laumontite :: Laumontite (n.) A mineral, of a white color and vitreous luster. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles..

Tantalite :: Tantalite (n.) A heavy mineral of an iron-black color and submetallic luster. It is essentially a tantalate of iron.

Cimolite :: Cimolite (n.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color..

Lithology :: Lithology (n.) The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature..

Scrutineer :: Scrutineer (n.) A scrutinizer; specifically, an examiner of votes, as at an election..

Lapis Lazuli :: Lapis lazuli () An albuminous mineral of a rich blue color. Same as Lazuli, which see..

Spoffish :: Spodumene (n.) A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite..

Stanno- :: Stannite (n.) A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron..

Sectile :: Sectile (a.) Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals..

Lanthanum :: Lanthanum (n.) A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La..

Danalite :: Danalite (n.) A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur..

Mineralogize :: Mineralogize (v. i.) To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.

Scheelite :: Scheelite (n.) Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization..

Lead :: Lead (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide..

Elaterite :: Elaterite (n.) A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen..

Illinition :: Illinition (n.) A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals.

Mineralist :: Mineralist (n.) One versed in minerals; mineralogist.

Cadmia :: Cadmia (n.) An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.

Lanarkite :: Lanarkite (n.) A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color..

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

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