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• fibrolite
  fibrolite

  noun

  sillimanite.
• Fibrolite
  Fibrolite

  noun

  a type of building board containing asbestos and cement

fibrolite

American  

[fahy-bruh-lahyt] / ˈfaɪ brəˌlaɪt /

noun

Mineralogy.

1. sillimanite.

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Fibrolite British  

/ ˈfaɪbrəlaɪt /

noun

1. a type of building board containing asbestos and cement

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Etymology

Origin of fibrolite

First recorded in 1795–1805; fibro- + -lite

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fibrolite

The fibrolite imparts the toughness to the rock, which, I should judge, would increase its value for the purposes to which the Indians applied it.”

From Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428 by James Stevenson

The rock is therefore fibrolite schist, and from a lithological standpoint it is very interesting.

From Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428 by James Stevenson

These human relics were also accompanied by a fibrolite celt, numerous little worked flints, and some fragments of pottery.

From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by N. D'Anvers

For hatchets, wedges, and hammers, they used jade and kindred substances, such as fibrolite, diorite, acrd basalt, which were at the same time extremely durable, and very impervious to blows.

From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by N. D'Anvers