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1. andalusite, n. View full entry 1837-80
...A very hard silicate of alumina, found in rhombic crystals of various colour....
2. andesine, n. View full entry 1863
...= andesite...
3. andradite, n. View full entry 1868
...A variety of lime-irongarnet....
4. annabergite, n. View full entry 1837-68
...A hydrous arsenate of nickel, of a fine apple-green colour, occurring in capillary crystals or as an earthy mass....
5. antigorite, n. View full entry 1863
...A mineral, a variety of Serpentine....
6. Aptian, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1864
...Epithet of a division of the Lower Cretaceous formation in France and Belgium; belonging to or found in this, as a fossil....
7. arendalite, n. View full entry 1868
...A synonym of epidote, retained by Dana for one of its varieties....
8. arfvedsonite, n. View full entry 1837-68
...A ferruginous variety of hornblende, occurring in black crystals in Greenland and Norway; also called soda-hornblende....
9. arksutite, n. View full entry 1868
...A white, vitreous fluoride of lime, soda, and alumina....
10. atacamite, n. View full entry 1837-68
...A bright green ore, an oxychloride of copper, found in Chile, Australia, and at St. Just in Cornwall....
11. azorite, n. View full entry 1868
...A white mineral crystallizing in minute octahedrons, occurring in albitic rock; according to Hayes, a columbate of lime....
12. barnhardtite, n. View full entry 1837-68
...A sulphide of iron and copper, of bronze-yellow colour with grayish-black streak....
13. barrandite, n. View full entry 1868
...A phosphate of alumina and iron occurring in spheroidal concretions at Cerhovic in Bohemia....
14. bastite, n. View full entry 1837-68
...A bronze-or greenish-coloured impure foliated serpentine; also called Schiller-spar....
15. bastonite, n. View full entry ?a1868
...Mica in large plicated plates of greenish-brown colour; a variety of lepidomelane. (Dana.)...
16. boulangerite, n. View full entry 1868
...A native sulphide of antimony and lead....
17. bowenite, n. View full entry 1850
...A hard, compact, translucent form of serpentine, resembling nephrite....
18. bredbergite, n. View full entry 1868
...A name given by J. D. Dana in 1868 to a variety of andradite found at Sala, Sweden, which contains a large amount of magnesium....
19. bromlite, n. View full entry 1868
...A double carbonate of lime and baryta: the same as alstonite...
20. brushite, n. View full entry 1880
...A hydrous phosphate of lime occurring in small crystals in the rock guano of Aves Island and Sombrero in the Caribbean Sea....
