Epidote Definition

ĕpĭ-dōt
noun
Hydrous calcium aluminum iron silicate, a yellowish-green to black mineral, Ca2(AlFe)3Si3O12(OH), found as monoclinic crystals, grains, or masses and sometimes used as a gem.
Webster's New World

Any of a class of mixed calcium iron aluminium sorosilicates found in metamorphic rocks.

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Other Word Forms of Epidote

Noun

Singular:
epidote
Plural:
epidotes

Origin of Epidote

  • French épidote from Greek epididonai to give in addition, increase (from the greater length of its crystals compared with those of related minerals) epi- epi- didonai to give dō- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Epidote Sentence Examples

  • Often they contain quartz and felspar, sometimes pyroxene, amphibole, garnet or epidote.

  • Some of the "porphyroids" which have grains of quartz and felspar in a finely schistose micaceous matrix are intermediate between porphyries and micaschists of this group. Still more numerous are orthoschists of hornblendic character (hornblende-schists) consisting of green hornblende with often felspar, quartz and sphene (also rutile, garnet, epidote or zoisite, biotite and iron oxides).

  • Other minerals which occur in the rocks of this group are calcite, garnet, biotite, chloritoid, epidote, tourmaline and graphite or dark carbonaceous materials.

  • The copper is also accompanied by epidote, calcite, prehnite, analcite and other zeolitic minerals.

  • The neighbourhood is remarkable for the number of beautiful and rare minerals found there; one of these, a variety of epidote, was formerly called Arendalite.

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