Crossword-Solution: SERICITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sericite | n. | A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SERICITE (5)
The rocky cliffs, about eighty feet in height at the highest point, were formed of vertically lying slate rocks--a very uniform series of phyllite and sericite-schist.
The sedimentary rocks, which are ultimately derived from the destruction of the igneous rocks, contrast with the igneous rocks mainly in their smaller proportions of feldspars and ferro-magnesian minerals, their higher proportions of quartz and white mica (sericite or muscovite), and their content of kaolin, dolomite, calcite, chlorite, limonite, etc., which are nearly absent from the unaltered igneous rocks.
Alunite is a potassium-aluminum sulphate, which differs from sericite in that sulphur takes the place of silicon.
Various potassium silicates--leucite, feldspar, sericite, and glauconite--and the potassium sulphate, alunite, have received attention and certain of them have been utilized to a small extent, but none of them are normally able to compete on the market.
The gold, in particles hardly visible to the eye, is in a sandy matrix and is associated with chloritoid, sericite, calcite, graphite, and other minerals.