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Crocidolite
Webster's Dictionary
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Crocidolite'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/crocidolite.html. 1828.