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Zeolite

noun
1.
Any of a family of glassy minerals analogous to feldspar containing hydrated aluminum silicates of calcium or sodium or potassium; formed in cavities in lava flows and in plutonic rocks.





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"Zeolite" Quotes from Famous Books



... the watercourses; and the latter are pitted with wells sunk after the fashion of the Bedawin. In this rhumb the horizon is bounded by El-Harrah, the volcanic region whose black porous lavas and honey-combed basalts, often charged with white zeolite, are still brought down even to the coast to serve as mortars and handmills. The profile is a long straight and regular line, as if formed under water, capped here and there by a tiny head like the Syrian Kulayb Haurn: its peculiar dorsum makes it distinguishable ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton


Words linked to "Zeolite" :   mineral, chabazite, natrolite, water softener, heulandite, phillipsite, chabasite


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