Hematitic - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: hematiticHematite
An important ore of iron the sesquioxide so called because of the red color of the powder It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals and in massive and earthy forms the last called red ocher Called also specular iron oligist iron rhombohedral iron ore and bloodstone See Brown hematite under Brown...
Hematitic
Of or pertaining to hematite or resembling it...
Botryoid
Having the form of a bunch of grapes like a cluster of grapes as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences as botryoidal hematite...
Haeligmatite
Same as Hematite...
Limonite
Hydrous sesquioxide of iron an important ore of iron occurring in stalactitic mammillary or earthy forms of a dark brown color and yellowish brown powder It includes bog iron Also called brown hematite...
Mineralizer
An element which is combined with a metal thus forming an ore Thus in galena or lead ore sulphur is a mineralizer in hematite oxygen is a mineralizer...
Ocher
A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay usually red hematite or yellow limonite used as a pigment in making paints etc The name is also applied to clays of other colors...
Oligist
Hematite or specular iron ore prob so called in allusion to its feeble magnetism as compared with magnetite...
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