Embolite


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Em´bo`lite


n. 1. (Min.) A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Pedrazzini to the Egleston Collection at the Columbia School of Mines, where there are also a number of other specimens of polybasite and stephanite, as well as a remarkable specimen representing the transition of an argentite crystal into cerargyrite and a fine embolite. The American Museum of National History in New York also has, from this mine (the Las Chispas), what is probably the largest mass of polybasite crystals ever taken out in one piece.
The Las Chispas mine: Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico
1902 Stolzite and Embolite, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, no.
George Washington Fiss (1835-1925) and his Micromount Collections
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