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Phillipsite

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Phil´lips`ite
n.1.(Min.) A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; - called also christianite.
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Noun1.phillipsite - a group of white or reddish crystalline minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium and aluminum
zeolite - any of a family of glassy minerals analogous to feldspar containing hydrated aluminum silicates of calcium or sodium or potassium; formed in cavities in lava flows and in plutonic rocks
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The observed trend; unalterred glass [greater than] smectite [greater than] Nachabazite [greater than] analcime + phillipsite [greater than] K-feldspar [greater than] illite [greater than] albite + tobermorite, is similar to that formed following the deposition of volcanogenic glass in saline-alkaline lakes.
Senior Division 1999 by Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science
 
 
 
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