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epidote

/ep-i-doht/US // ˈɛp ɪˌdoʊt //UK // (ˈɛpɪˌdəʊt) //

表皮石,鳞片石,表皮岩,鳞片岩

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mineral, calcium aluminum iron silicate, Ca23Si3O12, occurring in green prismatic crystals.

Examples

  • Crystalline epidote, and whitish quartz, apparently from a vein.

  • Purplish-brown epidote, with small nests or concretions of green epidote and quartz; forming a sort of amygdaloid.

  • Conglomerate, containing angular fragments of yellowish-grey quartz-rock, in a base of compact epidote.

  • A nearly uniform greenish compound of epidote intimately mixed with quartz, also occurs at this place.

  • Whether the colour depends upon epidote, chlorite, or some other substance, we were not able to determine.