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Webster 1913 Edition

Magnesite

Mag′ne-site

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
magnésite
.]
(Min.)
Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.

Webster 1828 Edition

Magnesite

MAG'NESITE

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Noun.
Carbonated magnesia, or magnesia combined with silex. It occurs in amorphous masses, or in masses tuberous and spungiform; its color is yellowish gray, or white with spots, and dendritic delineations of blackish brown.

Definition 2024

Magnesite

Magnesite

See also: magnesite and magnésite

German

Noun

Magnesite m

  1. plural of Magnesit

magnesite

magnesite

See also: Magnesite and magnésite

English

Noun

magnesite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural magnesites)

  1. (mineralogy) A form of magnesium carbonate, MgCO3, occurring as dolomite (with calcite) but rarely found in the pure state.

Derived terms

  • chlormagnesite
  • cupromagnesite

Translations

  1. ↑ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

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Italian

Noun

magnesite f ‎(plural magnesiti)

  1. (mineralogy) magnesite

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Etymology

Named after its composition in 1807.[1]

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