[
US
/ˈmæɡnəˌsaɪt/
]
NOUN
- a white mineral consisting of magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium
How To Use magnesite In A Sentence
- Beds of magnesite range in average thickness from five centimetres to five metres.
- Associated with the quartz are crystals of almandine, kyanite, biotite, and magnesite.
- Some topaz forms spectacular crystals and matrix specimens on magnesite or quartz.
- Beds of magnesite range in average thickness from five centimetres to five metres.
- Some topaz forms spectacular crystals and matrix specimens on magnesite or quartz.
- I moved to the open hearth to explore the use of basic refractories-magnesite, chrome-magnesite and chrome brick-for furnace linings.
- Copper, Cu, has been found associated with cuprite octahedra at Pedra Preta, where these minerals occur on talc and magnesite.
- They established large high grade deposits of magnesite, particularly at Screechowl Creek where some beds are up to five metres thick and can be traced for more than ten kilometres.
- Sharp, clear magnesite rhombohedra may be mistaken for ‘Iceland spar’ calcite, but the density is a quick tip-off to the mineral's true identity.
- A home made lick can be made by mixing molasses and calcined magnesite in equal parts by weight.