Apatites is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 230 anagrams from letters in apatites (aaeipstt).
1795-1805; Greek apát(ē) trickery, fraud, deceit + -ite1
In its general appearance, apatite exhibits wide variations.
apatite supplies to soils almost all the phosphorus available for plants in a state of nature.
apatite, ap′a-tīt, n. a phosphate of lime of great variety of colour.
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.
The “asparagus-stone” is a form of apatite, simulating asparagus in colour.
The dolomite of Ceylon is not pure, far from it, being mixed freely with apatite or phosphate of lime.
The usual association with apatite and magnetite crystals is noted.
apatite and topaz are both colourless and of irregular form.
With regard to its mode of occurrence, apatite is found under a variety of conditions.
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