The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crocidolite \Cro*cid"o*lite\ (kr?-s?d"?-l?t), n. [Gr. kroky`s nap on cloth + -lite.] (Min.) 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.
Wiktionary
alt. (context mineral English) A fibrous, blue-green mineral that is an asbestos-like form of riebeckite. n. (context mineral English) A fibrous, blue-green mineral that is an asbestos-like form of riebeckite.
Usage examples of "crocidolite".
Had a sheen something like a crocidolite, but of course it didn't have the tiger's eye coloring of crocidolite.
The first thing she saw when she opened her office door was the eighteen-inch piece of crocidolite that had been mined in Cape Province, South Africa.