limonite
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of limonite
1815–25; < Greek leimṓn meadow + -ite 1
Example Sentences
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Another is the brokerage’s projected saprolite and limonite sales volumes of 6.7 million wet metric tons and 1.4 million wet metric tons, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
The person did not specify how much the smelter is buying but said the purchases are of low-grade limonite ore.
From Reuters ● Aug. 30, 2023
At first, the cargo hold appeared to match the description on the manifest: 2,300 tons of loose yellow rocks called limonite, a kind of iron ore.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2017
The results of this process are illustrated in Figure 5.10, which shows a granitic rock in which some of the biotite and amphibole have been altered to form the iron oxide mineral limonite.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The weathering of limestones containing minor percentages of iron minerals originally deposited with the limestones may result in the residual concentration of bodies of limonite or "brown ores" associated with clays near the surface.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
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