brown spar

noun

A ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.

Meanings

nounbrown spar (countable and uncountable, plural brown spars)

plural brown spars

  1. countableuncountablechemistryA ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.
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