Aragonite is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
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1795-1805; named after Aragon (the province, where first found) + -ite1
Thus calc spar is a common name for calcite, heavy spar for barite, needle spar for aragonite, and so on.
In the first class 74 are included sulphur and ammonium nitrate; monotropy is exhibited by aragonite and calcite.
aragonite occurs in very small masses, of a light yellow color and fibrous structure, between layers of serpentine.
Being isomorphous with aragonite, it crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, but simple crystals are not known.
The shell consists of carbonate of lime, under one or both of the forms known to mineralogists as calcite and aragonite.
Calcium carbonate may crystallize in either of two forms, calcite or aragonite.
aragonite, a mineral formed of calcium carbonate crystallized in the rhombic system; specific gravity 2.94 (compare Calcite).
Many limestones are rich in aragonite, but this in course of time tends to recrystallize as calcite.
aragonite is the more unstable of the two modifications of calcium carbonate.
The thermal springs of Carlsbad deposit spherical concretions of aragonite, forming masses known as pisolite or Sprudelstein.