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Crocidolite
CIDE DICTIONARY
Crocidolite, n. [Gr. kroky`s nap on cloth + -lite.].
A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus . A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Crocidolite, n. a fibrous blue or green silicate of iron and sodium; blue asbestos.
Etymology
Gk krokis -idos nap of cloth
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