fluor spar
- a variation of fluorspar.
Example Sentences
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In the folds of Mexico's hills lie great deposits of antimony, manganese, mercury, tungsten, fluor spar, molybdenum.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have in Mexico considerable manganese ore and fluor spar, as well, two articles found in very small quantities in the United States.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Turner's test" is a mixture of 5 parts of bisulphate of potash and 1 part of fluor spar.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
For the assay of pyromorphite the following charge may be used:—Ore, 20 grams; "soda," 25 grams; tartar, 7 grams; and fluor spar, 5 grams; and 2 grams of borax as a cover.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
This deportment of fluor spar determined Stokes in his choice of a name for his great discovery: he called this rendering visible of the ultra-violet rays Fluorescence.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John
