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Webster 1913 Edition

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(Min.)

Hematite or specular iron ore; – prob. so called in allusion to its feeble magnetism, as compared with magnetite.

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Adj.

[Gr. least.] Oligist iron, so called, is a crystallized tritoxyd of iron.

oligist ‎(plural oligists)