ZOISITE  , a See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock-forming See also:

• MINERAL

mineral, consisting of basic See also:

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

calcium and See also:

• ALUMINIUM (symbol Al; atomic weight 27.0)

aluminium silicate, Ca2(AlOH)Al2(SiO4)3, crystallizing in the orthorhombic See also:

• SYSTEM

system . It is closely related to See also:

• EPIDOTE

epidote (q.v.) both in the angles of the crystals and in chemical See also:

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

composition: a zoisite containing some See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron replacing aluminium may be identical in composition with an epidote (" clinozoisite ") poor in iron . The crystals are prismatic in See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit and are deeply furrowed parallel to their length; terminal planes are rare; there is a perfect cleavage parallel to the brachy-pinacoid . Columnar and compact masses are more See also:

• COMMON

common . The hardness is 61 and the specific gravity 3'25-3.37 . The See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour is often See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

grey; a See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose-red variety, known as " thulite," occurs with See also:

• SKY (M. Eng. skie, cloud; O. Eng. skua, shade; connected with an Indo-European root sku, cover, whence " scum," Lat. obscurus, dark, &c.)

sky-See also:

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

blue See also:

• VESUVIANITE

vesuvianite at Telemarken in See also:

• NORWAY
• NORWAY (Norge)

Norway, and has been used to a limited extent as an ornamental See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone . According to See also:

• DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences in the See also:

• OPTICAL

optical characters, two kinds of zoisite have been distinguished . Zoisite is a product of See also:

• DYNAMO (a shortened form of " dynamo-electric machine," from Gr. Sbvaµis, power)

dynamo-See also:

• METAMORPHISM (Gr. ise-rci, change of, and liop¢i, shape)

metamorphism, and occurs as a constituent of some crystalline See also:

• SCHISTS (Gr. vxq'ecv, to split)

schists, such as See also:

• AMPHIBOLITE

amphibolite and See also:

• ECLOGITE (from Gr. EKXoyi, a selection)

eclogite . It was first observed by See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

Baron Zois (after whom it was named) in the eclogite of Sau-Alpe in See also:

• CARINTHIA (Ger. Kdrnten)

Carinthia; other localities are the Ducktown See also:

• COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper mines in See also:

• TENNESSEE

Tennessee, where it occurs embedded in chalcopyrite; See also:

• LOCH, HENRY BROUGHAM LOCH, 1ST BARON (1827-1900)

Loch Garve in See also:

• ROSS
• ROSS, ALEXANDER (1699-1784)
• ROSS, GEORGE WILLIAM (1841- )
• ROSS, JOHN, or KOOESKOOWE (179o-1866)
• ROSS, ROBERT (1766-1814)
• ROSS, SIR HEW DALRYMPLE (1779-1868)
• ROSS, SIR JAMES CLARK (1800-1862)
• ROSS, SIR JOHN (1777-1856)

Ross-See also:

• SHIRE

shire, &c . The " saussurite " of the See also:

• ALPS

Alps and elsewhere, which has resulted from the alteration of the See also:

• PLAGIOCLASE

plagioclase See also:

• FELSPAR, or FELDSPAR

felspar of See also:

• GABBRO

gabbro, consists largely of zoisite with epidote . (L . J .