Limonites is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 502 anagrams from letters in limonites (eiilmnost).
1815-25; Greek leimṓn meadow + -ite1
The streak of limonite is yellow, thus distinguishing it from hematite.
Brown hematite, or limonite, has a chestnut brown color and contains very nearly sixty per cent.
The powder and streak of limonite are always yellow; it is an important ore.
Magnetite or magnetic iron ore, specular iron, and limonite are also oxides of iron.
On weathering, magnetite commonly passes into limonite, the ferrous oxide having probably been removed by carbonated waters.
In nature it is frequently altered to limonite with the separation of native sulphur.
Both ferrous carbonate and limonite, however, occur in irregular surface deposits.
The green sand when weathered is brown or rusty coloured, the glauconite being oxidized to limonite.
Sandstone of various colours was the chief material employed by the Khmers; limonite was also used.
Near Lithgow extensive deposits of limonite, or clay-band ore, are interbedded with coal.