Meanings
- uncountableActinolite.
Along with it is found asbestinite of a light green colour.
1814, Benjamin Heyne, “Tract XXIV. Account of the Method of making Steel in the Mysore Country”, in Tracts, Historical and Statistical, on India; With Journals of Several Tours Through Various Parts of the Peninsula: Also, an Account of Sumatra, in a Series of Letters, London: Printed for Robert Baldwin, […], page 3602 more examples
Trap, blended, or intimately mixed with hornblende ſlate, wacken, mullen, or kragg. / Talcoſe Argillite. / Calciferous Argillite. / Hornblende Slate, penetrated with talc or mica. / Hornblende, penetrated with garnets. / Hornblende Slate, penetrated with an exceſs of quartz. / Mullen, penetrated with aſbeſtinite.
1800, “Part II. Concerning the Mineral Kingdom, or Mineralogy”, in Elements of Chemistry and Natural History. To Which is Prefixed, the Philosophy of Chemistry, 5th edition, Edinburgh: Mundell & Son, for Longman & Rees, and J. Johnson, and for Mundell & Son, translation of original by A. F. Fourcroy, page 336The water-worn stones on the shore were chiefly of micaceous shistus, sometimes with the remains of small garnets; with asbestinite, serpentine, &c.
1805, “Remarks made in a Tour thro’ some of the Shetland Islands in 1804”, in The Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Being a General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics, volume LXVII, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company, by J. Ruthven and Sons, page 350, column 2
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