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Definition: CROCIDOLITE |
CROCIDOLITENoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | A lavender-blue or leek-green mineral of the amphibole group that occurs in silky fibres. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | An asbestiform variety of riebeckite; forms lavender-blue, indigo-blue, or leek-green silky fibers and massive and earthy forms; suited for spinningand weaving. Also spelled krokitolit. Syn:blue asbestos; Cape blue. (references) |
Public Administration | A variety of asbestos used in cement products and pressure piping. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CROCIDOLITE |
| English words defined with "CROCIDOLITE": blue asbestus ♦ Krokidolite ♦ Tiger-eye. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CROCIDOLITE": abriachanite, Asbestos, Crocidolite ♦ blue asbestos ♦ Cape blue ♦ fibrous structure ♦ hawk's-eye ♦ Nullagine Series ♦ tiger's-eye. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crocidolite | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CROCIDOLITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | crocidolit (blue asbestos), krokydolit (blue asbestos). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | crocidoliet (blue asbestos), blauw asbest (blue asbestos). (various references) | ||||
French | crocidolite, asbeste du Cap, asbeste bleu. (various references) | ||||
German | Krokydolit (blue asbestos), Blauasbest (blue asbestos). (various references) | ||||
Italian | crocidolite (blue asbestos). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ocidolitecray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CROCIDOLITE": crocidolites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CROCIDOLITE" (pronounced 'Cro*cid"o*lite'): Aciculite, Aerolite, Agalmatolite, Ampelite, Antholite, Anthophyllite, Anthropolite, Apophyllite, Arenicolite, Argillite, Asterophyllite, Baculite, Blite, Botryolite, Byssolite, Carnallite, Carpolite, Cerolite, Chesterlite, Chiastolite, Chrysolite, Coccolite, Coprolite, Corallite, Cryolite, Crystallite, Danalite, Datolite, Daubreelite, Embolite, Fibrolite, Foralite, Francolite, Frost-blite, Globulite, halite, Homilite, impolite, Krokidolite, Kryolite, Lherzolite, Lithiophilite, Longulite, Lucullite, Lunulite, Malacolite, Marmolite, Melilite, Mellite, Menilite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-i-i-l-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: corticoid, crocodile, doleritic. | |
-3 letters: cleidoic, clitoric, codirect, coeditor, cricetid, crocoite, dicrotic, elicitor, idiolect, licorice, lordotic. | |
-4 letters: cerotic, circled, circlet, codicil, colitic, colored, cordite, cricoid, decolor, deictic, dictier, diorite, docetic, eidolic, ericoid, icicled, icteric, oceloid, oolitic, orectic. | |
-5 letters: cicero, cilice, circle, citied, citole, citric, cleric, clerid, clitic, coedit, coiled, coiler, colder, colter, cooled, cooler, coolie. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-i-i-l-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: crocidolites. | |
+3 letters: clitoridectomy. | |
+5 letters: clitoridectomies. | |
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