celestite

English

Celestite

Etymology

From Latin caelestis (“celestial, heavenly”), because of the usual blue shade, +‎ -ite. [1]

Noun

celestite (countable and uncountable, plural celestites)

  1. (mineralogy) A colourless, orange or blue mineral, strontium sulfate, SrSO4, that is an ore of strontium and constitutes the skeletons of Acantharea.

Synonyms

Further reading

  • “Celestite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • celestite mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016
  1. ↑ James D. Dana: Dana's System of Mineralogy. Volume II, seventh edition, revised by Charles Palache, Harry Berman, and Clifford Frondel. John Wiley & Sons, 1951
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