fluor spar
- a variation of fluorspar.
Example Sentences
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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
In the folds of Mexico's hills lie great deposits of antimony, manganese, mercury, tungsten, fluor spar, molybdenum.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I left, to shovel in fluor spar with Fred.
From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford
Among these black schorl or tourmaline, actinolite, zircon, garnet, and fluor spar are not uncommon; but they are too sparingly dispersed to modify the general aspect of the rock.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
