chlorite

IPA: kɫˈɔraɪt

(mineralogy) A dark green mineral resembling serpentine, being a mixed silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminium.
(chemistry, countable) Any salt of chlorous acid.

Examples of "chlorite" in Sentences

Make sure they contain chlorine dioxide, zinc ion or sodium chlorite.
We also discovered bones, stone tools, pieces of carbonized wood, and a bead made of chlorite.
Some of the elaborately carved chlorite vessels from Jiroft are inlaid with semiprecious stones.
Sodium chlorite (NaClO2) isn't chlorine dioxide (ClO2) by Michael Lusk on Wednesday, Apr 29, 2009 at 6: 11: 26 PM
Basically, a process called metamorphism caused the basalts in Shenandoah to recrystallize with new minerals, such as chlorite, epidote, and albite, which help give the rocks their greenish hue.
The false cenotaph in the public upper chamber was in white marble, the color of freshly drawn milk, inlaid profusely with stylized flowers in tiers—a lapis lazuli blue, a jasper red, a bloodstone black, an agate and sard brown, a carnelian orange, a chlorite and jade green, and a yellow limestone.
Visitors may recognize other hallmark Minoan artifacts in the show: clay tablets inscribed with the still-undeciphered Linear A writing, a bull's head rhyton carved from chlorite with gilded horns, and the "Chieftain's Cup," a carved steatite conical cup with processional scene (see photo gallery).