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单词 fluorite
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Definition of fluorite in English:

fluorite

noun ˈflɔːrʌɪtˈflʊərʌɪt
mass noun
  • A 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:

fluorite

noun
  • 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.

 
 
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