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zoisite
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ZOISITE
n.[from Van Zois, its discoverer. ] A mineral regarded as a variety of epidote. It occurs in deeply striated rhomboidal prisms, much compressed and rounded; its colors gray, yellowish or bluish gray, brown, grayish yellow, or reddish white. This is called also a subspecies of prismatoidal augite.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
ZOISITE
Zois "ite, n. Etym: [After its discoverer, Von Zois, an Austrian mineralogist. ] (Min. )
Defn: A grayish or whitish mineral occurring in orthorhombic, prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses. It is a silicate of alumina and lime, and is allied to epidote.
New American Oxford Dictionary
zoisite
zois ite |ˈzoiˌsīt ˈzɔɪsaɪt | ▶noun a grayish-white or grayish-green crystalline mineral of the epidote group consisting of a hydroxyl silicate of calcium and aluminum. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from the name of Baron S. von Edelstein Zois (1747 –1819 ), Austrian scholar, + -ite 1 .
Oxford Dictionary
zoisite
zoisite |ˈzɔɪsʌɪt | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a greyish-white or greyish-green crystalline mineral consisting of a basic silicate of calcium and aluminium. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from the name of Baron S. von Edelstein Zois (1747 –1819 ), Austrian scholar, + -ite 1 .
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