Limonite is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 243 anagrams from letters in limonite (eiilmnot).
1815-25; Greek leimṓn meadow + -ite1
Sandstone of various colours was the chief material employed by the Khmers; limonite was also used.
The streak of limonite is yellow, thus distinguishing it from hematite.
Near Lithgow extensive deposits of limonite, or clay-band ore, are interbedded with coal.
In nature it is frequently altered to limonite with the separation of native sulphur.
Brown hematite, or limonite, has a chestnut brown color and contains very nearly sixty per cent.
On weathering, magnetite commonly passes into limonite, the ferrous oxide having probably been removed by carbonated waters.
The green sand when weathered is brown or rusty coloured, the glauconite being oxidized to limonite.
Magnetite or magnetic iron ore, specular iron, and limonite are also oxides of iron.
The powder and streak of limonite are always yellow; it is an important ore.
Both ferrous carbonate and limonite, however, occur in irregular surface deposits.