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What does natrolite mean?

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  1. (mineralogy) A fibrous zeolite mineral, being a sodium aluminosilicate, of the chemical formula Na2Al2Si3O10·2H2O.
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Two zeolite minerals, analcime and natrolite, were identified, representing the first authenticated occurrence of these zeolites in Ontonagon County.
These include Nova Scotia's provincial mineral stilbite, as well as heulandite, analcime, chabazite, gmelinite, natrolite and thomsonite.
On one trip he opened a huge pocket of large analcime, natrolite, and apophyllite crystals at the Big Rock quarry and shared them with everyone.
The bed holding the upright crystals is also natrolite in confused matted masses.
The groundmass of these leucocratic segregations is heterogeneous, consisting of centimeter-scale regions dominated by nepheline, natrolite, alkali feldspar, or wollastonite.
Epistilbite, mordenite, stellerite, natrolite, scolecite, mesolite, and chabazite are relatively uncommon, and goosecreekite and yugawaralite are extraordinarily rare.

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