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ANORTHIC SERIES

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 884 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ANORTHIC See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

SERIES . Aenigmatite . Na4Fe"9A1 Fe"' (Si,Ti)12044. Of these, See also:

TREMOLITE

tremolite, See also:

HORNBLENDE

hornblende and See also:

CROCIDOLITE

crocidolite, as well as the important varieties, See also:

ASBESTOS

asbestos and See also:

jade, are treated under their own headings. Brief mention only need be here made of some of the others. Naturally, on See also:

account of the wide See also:

variations in chemical See also:

composition, the different members vary considerably in characters and See also:

general See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance; the specific gravity, for example, varies from 2•9 in tremolite to 3.8 in aenigmatite. Anthophyllite occurs as brownish, fibrous or lamellar masses with hornblende in See also:

MICA

mica-schist at See also:

KONGSBERG

Kongsberg in See also:

Norway and some other localities. An aluminous variety is known as gedrite, and a deep See also:

green, See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian variety containing little See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron as kupfferite. Actinolite is an important member of the See also:

MONOCLINIC

monoclinic series, forming radiating See also:

groups of acicular crystals of a See also:

bright green or greyish-green See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour. It occurs frequently as a constituent of crystalline See also:

SCHISTS (Gr. vxq'ecv, to split)

schists. The name (from aKTis, a See also:

ray, and XiOos, a See also:

stone) is a See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of the old See also:

German word Strahlstein, radiated stone. Glaucophane, crocidolite, riebeckite and arfvedsonite See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form a somewhat See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

GROUP

group of See also:

ALKALI

alkali-amphiboles.

The two former are See also:

BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue fibrous minerals occurring in crystalline schists, and are the result of See also:

DYNAMO (a shortened form of " dynamo-electric machine," from Gr. Sbvaµis, power)

dynamo-metamorphic processes; the two latter are dark green minerals which occur as See also:

ORIGINAL

original constituents of igneous rocks See also:

rich in soda, such as See also:

NEPHELINE

nepheline-See also:

SYENITE

syenite and See also:

PHONOLITE (Gr. ~vi7, sound, and Moos, stone)

phonolite. Aenigmatite and its variety cossyrite are rare minerals forming constituents of igneous rocks of the nepheline-syenite and phonolite groups. (L. J.

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