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leptochlorites

leptochlorites is the plural of leptochlorite.

Meaning of leptochlorite

Noun

leptochlorite (plural leptochlorites)

  1. A chlorite that contains mostly ferric iron rather than ferrous iron. Leptochlorites are typically richer in trivalent ions relative to silicon and divalent ions.
    • Analysis I is incomplete, but analysis II may be readily recalculated into leptochlorite made up of mixtures of the following moleculas in the proportion indicated […]1914, Victor Ziegler, The Minerals of the Black Hills (South Dakota School of Mines Bulletin No. 10), page 181

Questions about leptochlorites

What is leptochlorites the plural of?
Leptochlorites is the plural of leptochlorite.

Words near leptochlorites in the dictionary

  1. leptochariid
  2. leptochariids
  3. leptochitonid
  4. leptochitonids
  5. leptochlorite
  6. leptochlorites
  7. leptochoroid
  8. leptochoroids
  9. leptoclase
  10. leptoclases
  11. leptocleidian

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