Crossword clues for edenite
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amphibole \Am"phi*bole\ ([a^]m"f[i^]*b[=o]l), n. [Gr. 'amfi`bolos doubtful, equivocal, fr. 'amfiba`llein to throw round, to doubt: cf. F. amphibole. Ha["u]y so named the genus from the great variety of color and composition assumed by the mineral.] (Min.) A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.
Wiktionary
n. (context mineral English) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
Wikipedia
Edenite is a double chain silicate mineral of the amphibole group with the general chemical composition NaCaMg(SiAl)O(OH). Edenite is named for the locality of Edenville, Orange County, New York, where it was first described.
Usage examples of "edenite".
Since there was a chance of survivors, I got into edenite armor and went aboard the wreck.
For the glow of this was not the even shimmering green of submarine edenite armor.
We walked out into Krakatoa Dome, into the throbbing of the pump rooms and the air circulators, past the locks where a sleek cargo sub-sea liner was nuzzling into the edenite pressure chamber.
Why, an edenite lock system was a fantastically complicated engineering project!
Who could find it worth his while to smuggle an edenite armored sea-car in here?
The edenite film on the hull shimmered and brightened again, responding to the pressure change.
I was trying to call my uncle, to repair the failing edenite armor, but the first icy spray had trapped and frozen me.
Rock rattled against the edenite hull of the MOLE like machine-gun fire.
Plans were being made to evacuate all of the dome outside the edenite safety armor.
The whole Fleet Base was evacuated to higher levels, beyond the edenite shield.
Vishnar, Chief Judge of the Logh District, was an old-school New Edenite leader, one of the original set of leaders formed by Adam Tilghman in the times after the whole cluster had been turned to Anchor.
Alistair was the very picture of Respectability, and all that an Edenite should be.
This was on my advice, for I well knew that no true Edenite could resist a free show, especially as I carefully initiated a rumor that stag films would be shown.
He was on a first-name basis with most of the population of Snake by now, and as he felt more and more at home among the Edenites, his hitherto reclusive personality expanded like a flower in the sun.
Certainly he has managed to persuade many Edenites of this, else they would not be cooperating with him.