satin spar
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of satin spar
First recorded in 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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Satin spar is found in this parish; there is also a pool on Gildersdale Fell, the slime of which is used for painting The slime of a pool use for painting yellow. yellow.
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Satin spar is still another variety often seen in mineral collections.
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The stalactites here are very beautiful, assuming the structure of satin spar.
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The beauty of vegetation denied those desolate buttes and ridges is atoned for by a marvelous abundance of most wonderful crystals of aragon110ite, calcite, barite and satin spar; each to itself, or two or more combined in beautiful geodes or else arranged in great flat slabs crystallized on both sides of a thin sheet of lime.
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The interior may be a bright green or lemon yellow, or perhaps the two in combination, while others yet may be either of these varieties with the addition of flat crystals of almost transparent satin spar.
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