A System of Mineralogy: Continuation Of Class I. Earthy Minerals, Class II. Saline Minerals, Class III. Inflammable MineralsA. Constable & Company, 1816 - Mineralogy |
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1r th Actynolite acuminated acute Alumina Apatite asbestous augite Baryt basalt Beit Bert bevelled blowpipe Brard brittle Broch Brong calcareous-spar Carbonate of Lime carbonatée Carbonic Acid Chaux Chemical Characters chrysolite cleavage colour compact conchoidal Constituent cross fracture crystallised crystals Diopside distinct concretions Dolomite easily frangible Estner External Characters fibrous foliated fracture is foliated fragments are indeterminate Geognostic and Geographic Geognostic Situation Geographic Situation glimmering glistening granular green greenish-black grey greyish-white gypsum Haus Hauy Heavy-Spar Hornblende imbedded inclining indeterminate angular Kalkstein Karsten Kirw Klaproth lamellar lateral edges lateral planes Lenz Leonhard limestone lustre Magnesia Manganese marble mineral Mohs Observations occurs massive Oken olivine opaque Oxide of Iron pearly principal fracture prism Pyroxene quartz Reuss rocks semi-hard shining Silica six-sided prism sometimes Specific gravity splendent splintery Steffens Strahlstein streak Strontian Subspecies Suck sulphatée Tabel terminal planes translucent tremolite truncated uneven varieties veins vitreous Werner yellowish