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Chlorite

//ˈklɔːˌɹaɪt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A dark green mineral resembling serpentine, being a mixed silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminium. countable, uncountable

    "They have been heated enough to impart a delicate blue-green hue, which is because of the abundance of the ‘low-grade’ metamorphic mineral, chlorite."

  2. 2
    a generally green or black mineral; it occurs as a constituent of many rocks typically in the form of a flat crystal wordnet
  3. 3
    Any salt of chlorous acid. countable

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χλωρῖτις (khlōrîtis).

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