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Lepidolite

Definition: Lepidolite

Lepidolite

Noun

1. A mineral of the mica group; an important source of lithium.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lepidolite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1835. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Lepidolite

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A. A monoclinic, trigonal, or orthorhombic mineral; 1, 2, or 3[K2 Li4 Al2 (Si8 O20 (OH)4 ] ; mica group; forms a series with muscovite; perfect basal cleavage; pink to purple; in lithium-rich granite pegmatites; a source of lithium. Syn:lithia mica; lithionite.b. A group name for lithium-rich micas. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Lepidolite

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Lepidolite is a lilac or rose-violet colored mineral of the mica group that is an important source of lithium.

See also: List of minerals

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lepidolite."

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Crosswords: Lepidolite

English words defined with "lepidolite": atomic number 37Rb, rubidium. (references)
Specialty definitions using "lepidolite": greisenization. (references)
Etymologies containing "lepidolite": rubidium. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lepidolite

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  lepidolite

17
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Modern Translations: Lepidolite

Language Translations for "lepidolite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

lepidolit (lithium mica). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

lepidoliet (lithium mica). (various references)

   

French

  

lépidolithe. (various references)

   

German

  

Lepidolith (lithium mica). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λεπιδόλιθος (lithium mica). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lepidolite (lithium mica). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

epidolitelay

   

Portuguese

  

lepidolite (lithium mica). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lepidolite (lithium mica). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Lepidolite

Derivations

Words beginning with "lepidolite": lepidolites. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Lepidolite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-l-l-o-p-t"

-2 letters: eolipile, lepidote, petioled.

-3 letters: epidote, petiole, piloted.

-4 letters: diploe, dipole, eloped, etoile, illite, iolite, lilied, lilted, lipide, lipoid, pelite, pellet, pelted, pilled, piolet, pitied, podite, polite, polled, pollee, tilled, toiled, tolled.

-5 letters: depot, edile, elide, elite, elope, epode, idiot, lipid, loped, oiled, oldie, opted, piled, pilei, pilot, plied, poled, teiid, teloi, tepid, tilde, tiled.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-l-l-o-p-t"
 

+1 letter: lepidolites.

 

+5 letters: poliomyelitides, septendecillion.

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Alternative Orthography: Lepidolite


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 70 69 64 6F 6C 69 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01110000 01101001 01100100 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#112 &#105 &#100 &#111 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0070 0069 0064 006F 006C 0069 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46718275708178758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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