Apatite is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
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1795-1805; Greek apát(ē) trickery, fraud, deceit + -ite1
The dolomite of Ceylon is not pure, far from it, being mixed freely with apatite or phosphate of lime.
In its general appearance, apatite exhibits wide variations.
The “asparagus-stone” is a form of apatite, simulating asparagus in colour.
apatite supplies to soils almost all the phosphorus available for plants in a state of nature.
Phos′phorite, a massive radiated variety of apatite; Phos′phuret, a compound of phosphorus with a metal.
The accessory minerals of these rocks are principally oligoclase, muscovite, apatite and zircon.
With regard to its mode of occurrence, apatite is found under a variety of conditions.
apatite, ap′a-tīt, n. a phosphate of lime of great variety of colour.
The usual association with apatite and magnetite crystals is noted.
apatite and topaz are both colourless and of irregular form.