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Haematite   Listen
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Haematite  n.  Same as Hematite.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Haematite" Quotes from Famous Books



... instruments, but also for mineral substances, which, on account of their colour and their natural form, are believed to bear some relation to the organic functions, and even to the propensities of the soul. This ancient worship of stones, these benign virtues attributed to jade and haematite, belong to the savages of America as well as to the inhabitants of the forests of Thrace. The human race, when in an uncultivated state, believes itself to have sprung from the ground; and feels as if it were enchained to the earth, and the substances ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt

... Iron from Mugnah, proved to be haematite (which is magnetic), with some red-brown oxide of iron and quartz. It was found to contain of— Peroxide of iron (per cent.). . . .75.46 Protoxide of iron (per cent.) . . ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton



Words linked to "Haematite" :   hematite



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