NOUN
- a generally green or black mineral; it occurs as a constituent of many rocks typically in the form of a flat crystal
How To Use chlorite In A Sentence
- Alkaline relatively stable sodium hypochlorite solution, commonly known as An Ti Ming.
- How about apatite, apophyllite, axinite, chlorite, hypersthene, scapolite, serpentine, tantalite, and wolframite?
- The false cenotaph in the public upper chamber was in white marble, the color of freshly drawn milk, inlaid profusely with stylized flowers in tiers—a lapis lazuli blue, a jasper red, a bloodstone black, an agate and sard brown, a carnelian orange, a chlorite and jade green, and a yellow limestone. Shadow Princess
- In the metamorphosed Thunderhead Sandstone it was found that at the staurolite isograd, the boundary between the garnet and staurolite zones, the mineral chlorite disappears from the rocks and muscovite decreases sharply, whereas staurolite appears and biotite becomes more abundant. Ken Miller in Cleveland: WEBCAST ARCHIVE URLS - The Panda's Thumb
- In sample IK99-31 chloritoid is in equilibrium with kyanite, andalusite and chlorite.
- In the metamorphosed Thunderhead Sandstone it was found that at the staurolite isograd, the boundary between the garnet and staurolite zones, the mineral chlorite disappears from the rocks and muscovite decreases sharply, whereas staurolite appears and biotite becomes more abundant. Ken Miller in Cleveland: WEBCAST ARCHIVE URLS - The Panda's Thumb
- So much for the western line; in the Portillo pass, proceeding eastward, we meet an immense mass of conglomerate, dipping to the west 45 deg, which rest on micaceous sandstone, etc., etc., upheaved and converted into quartz-rock penetrated by dykes from the very grand mass of protogine (large crystals of quartz, red feldspar, and occasional little chlorite). More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
- These crystals are associated with chalcopyrite, galena, quartz, calcite, epidote, and chlorite.
- Sodium chlorite, hypochlorite, perborate, and peroxide are used to bleach paper, cotton, and rayon.
- Clay minerals are mainly illite and chlorite, with only traces of smectite, vermiculite and kaolinite.