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Definition of Sillimanite
1. n. Same as Fibrolite.
Definition of Sillimanite
1. Noun. (minerology) A fibrous neosilicate mineral, polymorphic with andalusite and kyanite, with the chemical formula Al2SiO5. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sillimanite
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Medical Definition of Sillimanite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sillimanite
Literary usage of Sillimanite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"sillimanite: Al,SiO,. Orthorhombic. Sp. gr. 3.2S-:}.24. ... Its most characteristic
associates are sillimanite and ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1841)
"On (Ac Chemical Constitution of sillimanite. By ARTHUR CON- NELL, Esq., FRSE,
and Professor of Chemistry in the University of St Andrews. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"On the Occurrence of sillimanite Gneisses in Central Anglesey. By EDWARD GREENLY,
FGS The author records the occurrence of the mineral sillimanite in ..."
4. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1905)
"sillimanite or Fibrolite. This mineral crystallizes in the orthorhombic system
... sillimanite, which has for a long time been known to accompany corundum, ..."
5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1850)
"We have, then, the following discordant results in the amount of silica found in
sillimanite by different chemists, in the order of their publication ..."
6. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"sillimanite ; a newly-discovered mineral from Saybrook, in Connecticut, where it
is found disseminated through gneiss. It was named by Bowen, ..."
7. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1916)
"A considerable dissociation of the dehydrated clay was noted with the formation
of minute rounded isotropic grains of amorphous sillimanite and a trace of ..."
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