aphriten.
/ˈafrʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A variety of carbonate of lime or calcite.
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1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 678 Aphrite, in its harder and more sparry variety is a foliated white pearly calcite, near argentine; in its softer kinds it approaches chalk, though lighter, pearly in lustre..and more or less scaly in structure.
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