Word Meanings - CHRISTIANITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Same as Anorthite. See Phillipsite.

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• PHILLIPSITE
  A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite.
• ANORTHITE
  A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar.