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Webster 1913 Edition


Aragonite

A-rag′o-nite

,
Noun.
[From
Aragon
, in Spain.]
(Min.)
A mineral composed of calcium carbonate and identical in composition with calcite, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.

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Aragonite

Aragonite

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German

Noun

Aragonite m

  1. plural of Aragonit

aragonite

aragonite

See also: Aragonite

English

Noun

aragonite (countable and uncountable, plural aragonites)

  1. (mineralogy) A saline evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate with the chemical formula CaCO3; it is dimorphous with calcite.

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  1. Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

French

Noun

aragonite f (plural aragonites)

  1. (mineralogy) aragonite