Crossword-Solution: APATITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apatite | n. | Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with APATITE (5)
The main sources of phosphates and P are the phosphate beds of South Carolina, the apatite beds of Canada, and the bones of animals.
Magnetite, Titanoferrite, and Iron-pyrites also occur as normal constituents of various igneous rocks, although in very small amount, as also Apatite, or phosphate of lime.
Both these rocks are composed of triclinic feldspar and augite with more or less olivine, magnetic or titaniferous oxide of iron, and usually a little nepheline, leucite, and apatite; basalt usually contains considerably more olivine than melaphyre, but chemically they are closely allied, although the melaphyres usually contain more silica and alumina, with less oxides of iron, lime, and magnesia, than the basalts.
How Minerals Got Their Names Names of most minerals end in "ite"--apatite, calcite, dolomite, fluorite.
The scale is: 1) talc; 2)gypsum; 3) calcite; 4) fluorite; 5) apatite; 6) orthoclase; 7) quartz; 8) topaz; 9) corundum; 10) diamond.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, WP.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1949–2015).