Word Meanings - HEULANDITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

• Luster Lustre
  A period of five years; a lustrum.
• Monoclinic
  Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization.
• Lustering
  of Lustre
• Lusterless
  Alt. of Lustreless
• Occurring
  of Occur
• Aluminate
  A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.
• Occurrence
  A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.
• Aluminated
  Combined with alumina.
• Mineralist
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• Occurrent
  Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.
• Amygdaloid
  A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposi
• Mineralization
  The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• Amygdaloidal
  Almond-shaped.
• Mineralized
  of Mineralize
• Oftenness
  Frequency.

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