| Agriculture - 1824 - 514 pages
...is grey, sometimes with a faint reddish tinge, unless when acted on by the weather, when its colour is yellowish. It is in indistinct prisms, with oblique...fascicled masses, which are composed of slender prisms. Lustre somewhat shining or pearly. It is nearly as hard as quartz, and sometimes makes a slight impression... | |
| Agriculture - 1824 - 512 pages
...is grey, sometimes with a faint reddish tinge, unless when acted on by the weather, when its colour is yellowish. It is in indistinct prisms, with oblique...fascicled masses, which are composed of slender prisms. Lustre somewhat shining or pearly. It is nearly as hard as quartz, and sometimes makes a slight impression... | |
| Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1894 - 1166 pages
...the weather, when its color is yellowish. It is in distinct prisms, with oblique seams like /oisito, and in radiated or fascicled masses, which are composed...sometimes makes a slight impression upon rock crystal. He fore the blowpipe it blackens, and a small portion melts, when the heat is very great, into a black... | |
| Benjamin Kendall Emerson - Mineralogy - 1895 - 210 pages
...unless when acted on by the weather, when its color is yellowish. It is in distinct prisms, with obliqne seams like zoisite, and in radiated or fascicled masses,...into a black slag, which is attracted by the magnet. With quartz and garnet it forms a large mass in Cummington." C. Dewey: Geol. Min. Mass. ; Am. Jour.... | |
| Geology - 1911 - 910 pages
...yellowish. It is in indistinct prisms, with oblique seams like zoisite, and in radiated and fasciculated masses, which are composed of slender prisms. Luster...as quartz and sometimes makes a slight impression on rock crystal. Before the blowpipe it blackens, and a small portion melts, when the heat is very... | |
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