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collophane
Also col·loph·a·nite
[kol-uh-feyn]
noun
Mineralogy.
a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of collophane1
1915–20; < German Kollophan, equivalent to Greek koll(a) glue + -o- -o- + -phan -phane ( def. )
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