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Celestite   Listen
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Celestite, Celestine  n.  (Min.) Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.





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"Celestite" Quotes from Famous Books



... saint of Ireland. Born at Kirk Patrick, near Dumbarton. His baptismal name was "Succeath" ("valor in war"), changed by Milcho, to whom he was sold as a slave into "Cotharig" (four families or four masters, to whom he had been sold). It was Pope Celestine who changed the name to "Patricius," when he sent him ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer


Words linked to "Celestite" :   atomic number 38, mineral, sr


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