Crossword-Solution: BORACITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Boracite | n. | A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride. |
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| GLASSY white mineral | 1 answer |
| white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate | 1 answer |
| White mineral. | 5 answers |
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They were enclosed in the calcareous mass, as the quartz crystals of Burgtonna,* (* In the duchy of Gotha.) and the boracite of Lunebourg, are contained in gypsum.
Boron occurs in nature as boric acid or sassoline (H_{3}BO_{3}); borax or tincal (Na_{2}B_{4}O_{7}.10H_{2}O); ulexite or boronatrocalcite (2CaB_{4}O_{7}.Na_{2}B_{4}O_{7}); borocalcite (CaB_{4}O_{7}.4H_{2}O); boracite, 2Mg_{3}B_{8}O_{15}.MgCl_{2}, and some other minerals.
The phenomenon was first discovered in the tourmaline, and it is observed, speaking broadly, only in those minerals which are hemimorphic, that is, where the crystals have different planes or faces at their two ends, examples of which are seen in such crystals as those of axinite, boracite, smithsonite, topaz, etc., all of which are hemimorphic.
The sanjak is rich in mineral wealth; silver mines are worked at Balia and boracite mines at Susurlu.
When such water evaporates, it becomes concentrated, along with the magnesium and potassium salts, in the "mother liquor"; and upon complete evaporation, it crystallizes out as boracite and other rarer minerals.