COLEMANITE  , a hydrous See also:

• CALCIUM [symbol Ca, atomic weight 40.0 (o= x6)]

calcium borate, Ca2B6O11+5H2O, found in See also:

• CALIFORNIA
• CALIFORNIA, LOWER (Baja California)
• CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF

California as brilliant ,See also:

• MONOCLINIC

monoclinic crystals . It contains 50.9% of See also:

• BORON (symbol B, atomic weight I I)

boron trioxide, and is an important source of commercial borates and boracic See also:

• ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour)

acid . Beautifully See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed crystals, up to 2 or 3 in. in length, encrust cavities in compact, See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white colemanite; they are colourless and transparent, and the brilliant lustre of their faces is vitreous to adamantine in See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character . There is a perfect cleavage parallel to the See also:

• PLANE

plane of symmetry of the crystals . Hardness 4-4i; specific gravity 2.42 . The See also:

• MINERAL

mineral was first discovered in 1882 in See also:

• DEATH

Death Valley, Inyo See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, California, and in the following See also:

• YEAR

year it was found in greater abundance near Daggett in See also:

• SAN

San Bernardino county, forming with other borates and borosilicates a See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed in sedimentary strata of sandstones and See also:

• CLAYS, PAUL JEAN (1819-1900)

clays; in more See also:

• RECENT

recent years very large masses have been found and worked in these localities, and also in Los Angeles county (see See also:

• SPECIAL

Special See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

Report, 1905, of U.S . See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

Census See also:

• BUREAU (a Fr. word from burel or bureau, a coarse cloth used for coverings)

Bureau on Mines and Quarries; and Mineral Resources of the U.S., 1907) . . Priceite and pandermite are hydrous calcium borates with very nearly the same See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition as colemanite, and they may really be only impure forms of this See also:

• SPECIES

species . They are massive white minerals, the former friable and See also:

• CHALK

chalk-like, and the latter See also:

• FIRM

firm and compact in texture . Priceite occurs near Chetco in See also:

• CURRY

Curry county, See also:

• OREGON

Oregon, where it forms layers between a bed of See also:

• SLATE (properly CLAY SLATE; in M. Eng. slat or sclat, from O. Fr. esclat, a small piece of wood used as a tile; esclater, to break into pieces, whence modern Fr. eclat, the root being seen also in Ger. schleissen, to split)

slate and one of tough See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue steatite; embedded in the steatite are rounded masses of priceite varying in See also:

• SIZE

size from that of a See also:

• PEA (Pisum)

pea to masses weighing 2001b . Pandermite comes from See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor, and is shipped from the See also:

• PORT

port of See also:

• PANDERMA (Gr. Panormus)

Panderma on the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

Sea of See also:

• MARMORA (anc. Proconnesus)
• MARMORA, SEA OF (anc. Propontis; Turk. Mermer Denisi)

Marmora: it occurs as large nodules, up to a ton in See also:

• WEIGHT

weight, beneath a thick bed of See also:

• GYPSUM

gypsum . Another borate of commercial importance found abundantly in the Californian deposits is ulexite, also known as boronatrocalcite or " See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton-See also:

• BALL (in Mid. Eng. bal; the word is probably cognate with " bale," Teutonic in origin, cf. also Lat. falls, and Gr. 7raXXa)
• BALL, JOHN (1585-1640)
• BALL, JOHN (1818-1889)
• BALL, JOHN (d. 1381)
• BALL, SIR ALEXANDER JOHN, BART
• BALL, THOMAS (1819- )

ball," a hydrous calcium and See also:

• SODIUM [symbol Na, from Lat. natrium; atomic weight 23.00 (0=16)]

sodium borate, CaNaB5O9+8H20, which forms rounded masses consisting of a loose aggregate of See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• FIBRES
• FIBRES (or FIBERS, in American spelling; from Lat. fibra, apparently connected either with filum, thread, or findere, to split)

fibres .

It is the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal species in the borate deposits in the See also:

• ATACAMA
• ATACAMA, DESERT OF

Atacama region of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AMERICA

America . (L . J .