Crossword-Solution: CERITE 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The very recent secondary rocks everywhere present analogous phenomena; the molasse of the Pays de Vaud contains a fetid shelly limestone, and the cerite limestone of the banks of the Seine is sometimes mixed with sandstone.

The gypsum of Paris, lying between a cerite limestone, which covers chalk and a sandstone without shells, is distinguished by fossil bones of quadrupeds, while the Segeberg and Lunebourg gypsums, the position of which is more uncertain, are characterized by the boracits which they contain.

The following minerals produce beads with a small quantity of soda, but produce slags if too much soda is added: phenakite, pierosmine, olivine, cerite, cyanite, talc, gadolinite, lithium-tourmaline.

The sale of the cerite lighters in France threatened to upset the finances of the republic, which derived large revenue from its monopoly of match-making, so the French Government imposed a tax upon every man who carried one.

During recent years the principle of the tinder-box has been revived in a device in which sparks are produced by rubbing the mineral cerite (a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals) against steel.