CHAMOSITE
ca: CHAMOSITA
es: CHAMOSITA
Chamosite is a mineral of the chlorite group, a hydrous, aluminum silicate of iron, occurring in grey and white crystals in oolitic iron ore. It is also called egg stone and it is a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe.
Note: This section is copied from the printed addition of Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary and oolitic is a word you should remember for when you play “Scrabble”.
