Definitions for chlorite

chlorite chlo·rite

Spelling: [klawr-ahyt, klohr-]
IPA: /ˈklɔr aɪt, ˈkloʊr-/

Chlorite is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 381 anagrams from letters in chlorite (cehilort).

Definitions for chlorite

noun

  1. a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum, ferrous iron, and magnesium, occurring in green platelike crystals or scales.
  2. a salt of chlorous acid, as potassium chlorite, KClO 2 .

Origin of chlorite

First recorded in 1595-1605; chlor-1 + -ite1

Examples for chlorite

Where chlorite is important, it is sometimes called chloritic or "propylitic" alteration.

Veins of quartz, tourmaline and chlorite may traverse the granite, containing tinstone often in workable quantities.

This is more especially true of chlorite, schorl, hornblende and augite.

The gangue is quartz, chlorite, tourmaline, and sometimes decomposed granite and fluor spar.

The three last-mentioned minerals—talc, serpentine, and chlorite—are all silicates of magnesia.

In igneous rock the ore-bearing solutions may have altered the wall rock to a dense mixture of quartz, sericite, and chlorite.

chlorite is another soft, easily scratched mineral, generally of a dark-green colour.

On some of them the coal-beds form part of the cliffs along the shore; on others, copper is found in a chlorite and talcose slate.

Mica, epidote, and chlorite are also present as accessories.

I did feel that I did not owe my escape merely to my acquaintance with chlorite and its properties.

Word Value for chlorite
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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