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Meerschaum

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Sea-foam), a fine white clay, a hydrate-silicate of magnesia, supposed, as found on the sea-shore in some places, to have been sea-foam petrified.

Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Meerschaum'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​m/meerschaum.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.