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Webster 1913 Edition
Scapolite
Scap′o-lite
(skăp′ō̍-līt)
, Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] a staff, or L.
scapus
a stem, stalk + -lite
: cf. F. scapolite
.] (Mon.)
A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.
☞ The scapolite group includes scapolite proper, or wernerite, also meionite, dipyre, etc.
Webster 1828 Edition
Scapolite
SCAP'OLITE
,Noun.
A mineral which occurs massive, or more commonly in four or eight sides prisms, terminated by four sided pyramids. It takes its name from its long crystals, often marked with deep longitudinal channels, and collected in groups or masses of parallel, diverging or intermingled prisms. It is the radiated, foliated and compact scapolite of Jameson, and the paranthine and Wernerite of Hauy and Brongniart.
Definition 2024
scapolite
scapolite
English
Scapolite
Noun
scapolite (plural scapolites)
- (mineralogy) Any of several mixed sodium and calcium aluminosilicates which also contain chloride, carbonate and sulfate and are found in metamorphic rocks