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Definition of fluorite in English: fluoritenoun ˈflɔːrʌɪtˈflʊərʌɪt mass nounA mineral consisting of calcium fluoride which typically occurs as cubic crystals, colourless when pure but often coloured by impurities. Example sentencesExamples - Stalactite-like structures were common in the Black Sheep pocket, forming knobs and fingers of matrix covered with druzy quartz, fluorite, and galena crystals.
- Coexisting MI phases in these rocks include garnet, plagioclase, quartz, tourmaline and fluorite.
- We looked at outcrops by the open pit and saw vugs everywhere with remnants of fluorite and barite crystals.
- Most specimens are on a typical brown goethite matrix and may have associated calcite, plattnerite, barite, fluorite, and hemimorphite.
- A greisen is a quartz - mica aggregate containing significant amounts of cassiterite, wolframite, fluorite, topaz, rutile, and tourmaline.
Origin Mid 19th century: from fluor (see fluorspar) + -ite1. Definition of fluorite in US English: fluoritenoun A mineral consisting of calcium fluoride which typically occurs as cubic crystals, colorless when pure but often colored by impurities. Example sentencesExamples - Coexisting MI phases in these rocks include garnet, plagioclase, quartz, tourmaline and fluorite.
- Stalactite-like structures were common in the Black Sheep pocket, forming knobs and fingers of matrix covered with druzy quartz, fluorite, and galena crystals.
- Most specimens are on a typical brown goethite matrix and may have associated calcite, plattnerite, barite, fluorite, and hemimorphite.
- We looked at outcrops by the open pit and saw vugs everywhere with remnants of fluorite and barite crystals.
- A greisen is a quartz - mica aggregate containing significant amounts of cassiterite, wolframite, fluorite, topaz, rutile, and tourmaline.
Origin Mid 19th century: from fluor (see fluorspar) + -ite. |