Fibrolite

Word FIBROLITE
Character 9
Hyphenation fi bro lite
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Fibrolite"

What do we mean by fibrolite?

A mineral of a white or gray color and fibrous to columnar structure. noun

A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite. noun

Sillimanite. noun

Sillimanite.

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The word "fibrolite" in example sentences

It contained within its chamber a hoard of 101 axes of fibrolite and jadeite, 50 pebbles of a kind of turquoise known as _callaïs_, pieces of pottery, flints, and a peculiarly fine celt of jadeite together with a flat ring-shaped club-head of the same stone. ❋ Unknown (1908)

The rock is therefore fibrolite schist, and from a lithological standpoint it is very interesting. ❋ James Stevenson (1864)

The fibrolite imparts the toughness to the rock, which, I should judge, would increase its value for the purposes to which the Indians applied it.” ❋ James Stevenson (1864)

“This rock, which was so extensively employed by the Pueblo Indians for the manufacture of various utensils, has proved to be composed largely of quartz, intermingled with which is a fine, fibrous, radiated substance, the optical properties of which demonstrate it to be fibrolite. ❋ James Stevenson (1864)

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