Actinolite

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  • noun. A greenish variety of amphibole.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A trade-name of an apparatus by which the ultra-violet rays may be employed in the treatment of cutaneous diseases.
  • noun. A radiatedmineral, called by Werner strahlstein (ray-stone), consisting of silicates of calcium, magnesium, and iron.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
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  • noun. A mineral with monoclinic crystals of the chemical formula Ca2(Mg,Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2, belonging to the amphibole group.
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  • noun. a green mineral of the amphibole group; calcium magnesium iron silicate
    • Word Usage
    "In accompanying notes, a geologist identified as W.J. Hunter boasted of a rock formation from the Miocene Epoch that gleamed with boulders of "tourmaline-actinolite-quartz plutonites.""
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