Word Meanings - ZEOLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe.

• Beforetime
  Formerly; aforetime.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Heulandite
  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.
• Occurse
  Same as Occursion.
• Originator
  One who originates.
• Blowpipe
  A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Hydrous
  Containing water; watery.
• Occursion
  A meeting; a clash; a collision.
• Potash
  The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash.
• Alumina
  One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Included
  of Include
• Potashes
  Potash.
• Aluminate
  A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

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