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leptochlorite en · NOUN

Etymology

From lepto- + chlorite.

Meanings

1. A chlorite that contains mostly ferric iron rather than ferrous iron. Leptochlorites are typically richer in trivalent ions relative to silicon and divalent ions.
   • The reduced, bivalent iron partly migrates and partly becomes fixed in the form of leptochlorites or siderite. 1967 [1965], A. I. Perelman, translated by N. N. Kohanowski, Geochemistry of Epigenesis, translation of original in Russian, page 199:
   • […] contemporaneous with gold are gilbertite, leptochlorite, tourmaline, iron sulphides, feldspar, (rare) carbonates, and quartz; post gold minerals are quartz, zinc and lead sulphides, and many others of geophases K and L. 2012, Robert W. Boyle, Gold: History and Genesis of Deposits, page 108:
   • Analysis I is incomplete, but analysis II may be readily recalculated into leptochlorite made up of mixtures of the following moleculas in the proportion indicated […] 1914, Victor Ziegler, The Minerals of the Black Hills (South Dakota School of Mines Bulletin No. 10), page 181:

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