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asbestinite

asbestinite noun: actinolite.

Noun

asbestinite (uncountable)

  1. Actinolite.
    • Trap, blended, or intimately mixed with hornblende ſlate, wacken, mullen, or kragg. / Talcoſe Argillite. / Calciferous Argillite. / Hornblende Slate, penetrated with talc or mica. / Hornblende, penetrated with garnets. / Hornblende Slate, penetrated with an exceſs of quartz. / Mullen, penetrated...1800, “Part II. Concerning the Mineral Kingdom, or Mineralogy”, in Elements of Chemistry and Natural History. To Which is Prefixed, the Philosophy of Chemistry, 5th edition, Edinburgh: Mundell & Son...
    • The water-worn stones on the shore were chiefly of micaceous shistus, sometimes with the remains of small garnets; with asbestinite, serpentine, &c.1805, “Remarks made in a Tour thro’ some of the Shetland Islands in 1804”, in The Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Being a General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics...

Origin of asbestinite

From asbestine + -ite.

Questions about asbestinite

What does asbestinite mean?
Asbestinite means actinolite.
What part of speech is asbestinite?
Asbestinite is a noun.

Words near asbestinite in the dictionary

  1. asbestify
  2. asbestifying
  3. asbestinane
  4. asbestine
  5. asbestines
  6. asbestinite
  7. asbestinize
  8. asbestinized
  9. asbestinizes
  10. asbestinizing
  11. asbestise

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