fibrolite
(ˈfaɪbrəlaɪt)
[f. fibro- + Gr. λίθος stone; see also -ite.]
A fibrous mineral consisting chiefly of aluminium silicate.
| 1802 Bournon in Phil. Trans. XCII. 289 Fibrolite..always..either of a white colour, or of a dirty gray. 1803 Nicholson's Jrnl. IV. 14 Fibrolite accompanying the matrix of corundum. 1884 Dana Min. 375 Fibrolite was much used for stone implements..in the ‘Stone age’. |
Hence fibroˈlitic a., containing fibrolite.
| 1879 Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 3) 72. |