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chlorites

chlorites is the plural of chlorite.

Meaning of chlorite

Noun

chlorite (countable and uncountable, plural chlorites)

  1. A dark green mineral resembling serpentine, being a mixed silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminium.
    • They have been heated enough to impart a delicate blue-green hue, which is because of the abundance of the ‘low-grade’ metamorphic mineral, chlorite.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 177
  2. (countable) Any salt of chlorous acid.

Questions about chlorites

What is chlorites the plural of?
Chlorites is the plural of chlorite.

Words near chlorites in the dictionary

  1. chloriridovirus
  2. Chloris
  3. chlorisondamine
  4. chloristic
  5. chlorite
  6. chlorites
  7. chloritic
  8. chloritisation
  9. chloritization
  10. chloritize
  11. chloritized

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