turgite

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turgite (countable and uncountable, plural turgites)

  1. (mineralogy) A ferric hydrate, 2Fe2O3H2O, closely related to hematite and limonite.
    Synonyms: esmeraldite, hydrohematite, lepidocrocite
    • 1969, Geophysical Abstracts, numbers 268-271, page 679:
      The Bakal' deposit is a relatively rare type of iron deposit; the ores are siderites, grading in the oxidized zone into brown ironstones and turgites.
    • 1937, Charles Freeman Jackson, Eugene Delos Gardner, Stoping Methods and Cost, number 391, page 50:
      The fibrous mineral turgite is variable in composition, and considerable evidence is given that it probably represents solid solutions of goethite with hematite with enclosed and capillary water.

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