Cross-stone. World English Historical Dictionary

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Min. [CROSS- 3 b.] A name given to CHIASTOLITE; also to the minerals STAUROLITE and HARMOTOME, from the cruciform arrangement of the crystals.

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1770.  trans. Cronstedt’s Min., 83.

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1771.  Hill, Fossils Arranged, 152.

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1796.  Kirwan, Min., I. 282.

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1814.  Allan, Min. Nomen.

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