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What is a chlorite?

What is a chlorite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A dark green mineral resembling serpentine, being a mixed silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminium.
  2. (chemistry) Any salt of chlorous acid.
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Biotite is sometimes pseudomorphed by chlorite and epidote, and garnet is absent.
Late chlorite and carbonates overgrew the schistosity defined by phengite, chlorite and quartz.
Sodium chlorite, hypochlorite, perborate, and peroxide are used to bleach paper, cotton, and rayon.
The light colored andradite varieties topazolite and demantoid occur mainly in serpentinites and chlorite schists.
Along the vein wall, adjacent to the country rock, are fine-grained quartz, feldspar, and chlorite.
There is much chlorite growth, but quartz is only very poorly recrystallized.

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