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Webster 1913 Edition


Colemanite

Cole′man-ite

,
Noun.
[From W.T.
Coleman
of San Francisco.]
(Min.)
A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.

Definition 2024


Colemanite

Colemanite

See also: colemanite and colémanite

German

Noun

Colemanite m

  1. plural of Colemanit

colemanite

colemanite

See also: Colemanite and colémanite

English

Noun

colemanite (countable and uncountable, plural colemanites)

  1. (mineralogy) A white, grey or colorless mineral form of calcium borate; a principal source of boron.

See also

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