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Definition: BYSSOLITE

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Byssolite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Specialty Definition: BYSSOLITE

Domain Definition
Mining An olive-green asbestiform variety of tremolite-actinolite. The term is used in the gem trade for a variety of quartz-containing, greenish, fibrous inclusions of actinolite or asbestos. (references)

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Definition: BYSSOLITE

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "BYSSOLITE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Specialty Definition: BYSSOLITE

DomainDefinition
MiningAn olive-green asbestiform variety of tremolite-actinolite. The term is used in the gem trade for a variety of quartz-containing, greenish, fibrous inclusions of actinolite or asbestos. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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