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Webster 1828 Edition


Baikalite

BA'IKALITE

, n.[From Baikal, a lake in Northern Asia.]
A mineral occurring in acicular prisms, sometimes long, and either confusedly grouped or radiating from a center. Its color is greenish, or yellowish white. It is regarded as a variety of Tremolite. This name is given also to an olive-green variety of augite and also of epidote.