"Selenite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lime, and now discovered the nature of the narrow white stratum observed the day before from the offing, and which proved to be gypsum, mostly of the earthy kind, and some of it of a very pure white. A part of the rock near our landing-place contained a quantity of it in the state of selenite in beautiful transparent laminæ of a large size. The abundance of gypsum hereabouts explained also the extreme whiteness of the water near the whole of this part of the coast, which had always been observed in approaching ...
— Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage • William Edward Parry
... clay is very tenacious, and near the surface is generally of a brown colour, probably owing to the decomposition of the iron pyrites which it contains. It abounds in selenite or sulphate of lime, and in nodules which often contain organic remains. Fossil wood with Teredo antenautae is also met with, and pyritous casts of univalve and bivalve shells. Lower down the stratum becomes more compact and is of ...
— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various
... lime Selenite, gypsum, calcareous vitriol. Magnesia magnesia Epsom salt, sedlitz salt, magnesian vitriol. Ammoniac ammoniac Glauber's secret sal ...
— Elements of Chemistry, - In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries • Antoine Lavoisier |
