About The Word Zeolite

Bay Area Crosswords

Learn about the word Zeolite to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Zeolite definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.

Zeolite

Zeolite Meaning & Definition
Zeolite Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Zeolite?

[n] 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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Zeolite:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Zeolite:

See Also | chabasite | chabazite | heulandite | mineral | natrolite | phillipsite

Zeolite In Webster's Dictionary

\Ze"o*lite\, n. [Gr. ? to boil + -lite: cf. F. z['e]olithe.] (Min.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe. {Needle zeolite}, needlestone; natrolite.

More Crossword Puzzle Words

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Cross Word Of The Day

  • Typewriter ‐ hand-operated character printer for printing written messages…
  • Ankylotic ‐ relating to or characteristic of the abnormality…
  • Vittariaceae ‐ one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been…
  • Long-suffering ‐ patient endurance of pain or unhappiness [adj] patiently enduring…
  • Nearsighted ‐ unable to see distant…
  • Forbearing ‐ showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under…
  • Patrimonial ‐ inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal…
  • Go-getter ‐ someone whose career…
  • Bill of attainder ‐ a legislative act finding a person guilty of treason or felony…
  • Genus epipactis ‐ genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish…