parachrysotile

English

Etymology

para- +‎ chrysotile

Noun

parachrysotile (countable and uncountable, plural parachrysotiles)

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic polytype of chrysotile.

Further reading

“Parachrysotile” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
“parachrysotile”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

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