Word Meanings - FAHLUNITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hydration of iolite.

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• HYDRATION
  The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate. Water of hydration , water chemically combined with some substance to form a hydrate; -- distinguished from water of crystallization.
• IOLITE
  A silicate of alumina, iron, and magnesia, having a bright blue color and vitreous luster; cordierite. It is remarkable for its dichroism, and is also called dichroite.
• DEHYDRATION
  The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.
• SPONGIOLITE
  One of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as in flints.
• HELIOLITE
  A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.
• VARIOLITE
  A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.
• RADIOLITE
  A hippurite.
• MILIOLITE
  A fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus Miliola.
• SEPIOLITE
  Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.