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Cimolite vs Cymolite - What's the difference?

cimolite | cymolite |

Cymolite is a alternative form of cimolite.



As nouns the difference between cimolite and cymolite

is that cimolite is a soft clayey mineral of whitish or greyish colour while cymolite is rare spelling of lang=en.

cimolite

English

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l)

Noun

  • (mineral) A soft clayey mineral of whitish or greyish colour.
    • (Webster 1913) English words suffixed with -ite

    cymolite

    English

    Noun

  • (erroneous)
  • * 1816 , John Mawe, A Descriptive Catalogue of Minerals, Intended for the Use of Students , pages 56–57
    • Cymolite. ?Is a substance nearly allied to the preceding [Green Earth] and the following [Fuller’s Earth]; colour white, or with a reddish tinge, adheres to the tongue; in water separates in laminæ, which become translucent; is rare: from Derbyshire.
  • * 1976 , Wesley William Wendlandt and L.W. Collins [eds.], Thermal Analysis (Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross; ISBN 0879332387, 9780879332389), page 15
    • Some similar plates have been obtained with the montmorillonites of St. Jean de Cole (Dordogne), of Confolens (Charente), the “confolensite” of Confolens (Charente), the steargilite of Poitiers (Vienne), the cymolites of the Isle of Cymolis (Greece), and the smectic clays of Reigate (England), and of Styrie.