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A common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate
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apatite
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Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals , usually referring to hydroxylapatite , fluorapatite and chlorapatite , with high concentrations of OH , F and Cl ions , respectively, in the crystal . The formula of the admixture of the four most common endmembers ...
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Apatite \Ap"a*tite\, n. [Gr. ? deceit, fr. ? to deceive; it having been often mistaken for other minerals.] (Min.) Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.
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n. (context mineral English) A calcium fluoride phosphate of variable composition, sometimes used in the manufacture of fertilizer.
Usage examples of apatite.
Inside the wet tissues of the body, the two chemicals react, and they precipitate hydroxyl apatite, a tough, rigid, natural constituent of actual human bone.
They located two roads, neither passable by now, one track leading to a shallow pit where many tons of apatite had been removed.
Canada it occurs with apatite in pyroxene rocks which are intrusive in Laurentian gneisses and crystalline limestones, the principal mining district being in Ottawa county in Quebec and near Burgess in Lanark county, Ontario.
Kemjawi as a byproduct of feldspar mining, and phlogopite at Siilinjarvi from an apatite mine.