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crocidolite

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Noun
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cro=cid=o=lite

CIDE DICTIONARY

crocidoliten. [Gr. kroky`s nap on cloth + -lite.].
     A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crocidolite, n. a fibrous blue or green silicate of iron and sodium; blue asbestos.

Etymology
Gk krokis -idos nap of cloth

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