Chlorite vs Duporthite - What's the difference?
chlorite | duporthite |
(mineral) A dark green mineral resembling serpentine, being a mixed silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminium.
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 177:
(chemistry) Any salt of chlorous acid.
As nouns the difference between chlorite and duporthite
is that chlorite is while duporthite is (mineral) a rare asbestiform mineral, a mixture of talc and chlorite.chlorite
English
(wikipedia chlorite)Noun
(en noun)- They have been heated enough to impart a delicate blue-green hue, which is because of the abundance of the ‘low-grade’ metamorphic mineral, chlorite .