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Mineral in the teeth
Answer for the clue "Mineral in the teeth ", 7 letters:
apatite
Alternative clues for the word apatite
- Ingredient of most bones and teeth
- A source of phosphorus
- A common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate
- Mineral below orthoclase on the Mohs scale
- Hungry-sounding mineral
- A mineral - the thing put in a dish
- It's 5 on the Mohs scale of hardness
- Phosphate mineral
Word definitions for apatite in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
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.