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Meaning Of Crocidolite
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.