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Definition of Triplite
1. n. A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.
Definition of Triplite
1. Noun. (minerology) A rare manganese-bearing phosphate mineral. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Triplite
1. a mineral [n -S]
Medical Definition of Triplite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Triplite
Literary usage of Triplite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"Phosphates of manganese and iron chiefly with fluorine in triplite, and hydroxyl
... There may also be small amounts of calcium and magnesium in triplite. ..."
2. A Treatise on Mineralogy by Charles Upham Shepard (1857)
"... the European are but two or three millimeters long and one in thickness.
It occurs abundantly at Sterling, along with franklinite. Sp. 24. triplite ..."
3. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1890)
"In nodules, or massive, with three rectangular cleavages as in triplite, two
rather easy, ... Supposed to be altered triplite, and comes from Chan- ..."
4. The Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Practical and Theoretical: Embracing Its by James Curtis Booth, Campbell Morfit (1862)
"triplite gives traces of fluoric acid in an open tube and shows manganese in borax.
... But Fuchs observed that triplite is only disintegrated ..."
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