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siderite

About 0.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A widespread brown mineral, FeCO3, having the structure of calcite.
  2. noun An iron meteorite.
  3. noun An indigo blue variety of quartz.
  4. noun Magnetic iron ore; lodestone.

Similar words

chalybite spherulitic siderotil sideronatrite siderophyllite siderolite spathic iron ferrocalcite siderazote sideraphthite

Often followed by

and is in or are concretions nodules ore cement

Word family

siderites

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