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Webster 1913 Edition
Agalmatolite
Agˊal-mat′o-lite
(ăgˊăl-măt′ō̍-līt)
, Noun.
[Gr.
ἄγαλμα
, ἄγαλματος
, image, statue + -lite
: cf. F. agalmatolithe
.] (Min.)
A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called
figure stone
, and pagodite
. It is probably a variety of pinite. Webster 1828 Edition
Agalmatolite
AGALMAT'OLITE
,Noun.
A name given by Klaproth to two varieties of the pierre de lard, lard stone, of China. It contains no magnesia, but otherwise has the characters of talck. It is called in German, bildstein, figure-stone, and by Brongniart, steatite pagodite.