tremolite
61MÉTAMORPHIQUES (ROCHES) — Héritières d’une très grande diversité de textures et de compositions chimico minéralogiques, les roches métamorphiques (C. Lyell, 1833) offrent à leur tour une telle variété d’associations minérales et de textures que, dès le début de leur étude …
62amphibole group — noun a group of minerals with similar crystal structures containing a silicate chain and combinations of chiefly sodium and calcium and magnesium and iron and aluminum • Hypernyms: ↑mineral • Member Meronyms: ↑amphibole, ↑nephrite, ↑actinolite,… …
63tremolitic — adjective see tremolite * * * tremolitic / litˈik/ adjective • • • Main Entry: ↑tremolite …
64actinolite — Amphibole Am phi*bole ([a^]m f[i^]*b[=o]l), n. [Gr. amfi bolos doubtful, equivocal, fr. amfiba llein to throw round, to doubt: cf. F. amphibole. Ha[ u]y so named the genus from the great variety of color and composition assumed by the mineral.]… …
65Amphibole — Am phi*bole ([a^]m f[i^]*b[=o]l), n. [Gr. amfi bolos doubtful, equivocal, fr. amfiba llein to throw round, to doubt: cf. F. amphibole. Ha[ u]y so named the genus from the great variety of color and composition assumed by the mineral.] (Min.) A… …
66asbestus — Amphibole Am phi*bole ([a^]m f[i^]*b[=o]l), n. [Gr. amfi bolos doubtful, equivocal, fr. amfiba llein to throw round, to doubt: cf. F. amphibole. Ha[ u]y so named the genus from the great variety of color and composition assumed by the mineral.]… …
67edenite — Amphibole Am phi*bole ([a^]m f[i^]*b[=o]l), n. [Gr. amfi bolos doubtful, equivocal, fr. amfiba llein to throw round, to doubt: cf. F. amphibole. Ha[ u]y so named the genus from the great variety of color and composition assumed by the mineral.]… …
68hornblende — Amphibole Am phi*bole ([a^]m f[i^]*b[=o]l), n. [Gr. amfi bolos doubtful, equivocal, fr. amfiba llein to throw round, to doubt: cf. F. amphibole. Ha[ u]y so named the genus from the great variety of color and composition assumed by the mineral.]… …
69Jade — (j[=a]d), n. [F., fr. Sp. jade, fr. piedra de ijada stone of the side, fr. ijada flank, side, pain in the side, the stone being so named because it was supposed to cure this pain. Sp. ijada is derived fr. L. ilia flanks. Cf. {Iliac}.] 1. (Min.) A …
70nephrite — noun Etymology: German Nephrit, from Greek nephros; from its formerly being worn as a remedy for kidney diseases Date: 1794 a compact tremolite or actinolite that is the commoner and less valuable kind of jade and that varies in color from white… …
