Definition of crocidolite Crocidolite
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What does crocidolite mean?
Wiktionary 
- crocidolite (Noun)
A fibrous, blue-green mineral that is an asbestos-like form of riebeckite.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- crocidolite (n.)
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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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crocidolite
kro-sid′o-līt, n. a mineral consisting mainly of silicate of iron, in asbestos-like fibres. [From Gr. krokis, -idos, cloth, and lithos, stone.]
