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Webster 1913 Edition
Pinite
Pin′ite
,Noun.
[So called from
Pini
, a mine in Saxony.] (Min.)
A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.
Pi′nite
,Noun.
[L.
pinus
the pine tree.] 1.
(Paleon.)
Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.
2.
(Chem.)
A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (
Pinus Lambertina
). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite. Webster 1828 Edition
Pinite
PIN'ITE
,Noun.
A mineral holding a middle place between steatite and mica; the micarel of Kirwan. It is found in prismatic crystals of a greenish white color, brown or deep red. It occurs also massive.