Meaning of leptochlorite | Babel Free

Definitions

A chlorite that contains mostly ferric iron rather than ferrous iron. Leptochlorites are typically richer in trivalent ions relative to silicon and divalent ions.

Examples

“Analysis I is incomplete, but analysis II may be readily recalculated into leptochlorite made up of mixtures of the following moleculas in the proportion indicated […]”

“[…] contemporaneous with gold are gilbertite, leptochlorite, tourmaline, iron sulphides, feldspar, (rare) carbonates, and quartz; post gold minerals are quartz, zinc and lead sulphides, and many others of geophases K and L.”

“The reduced, bivalent iron partly migrates and partly becomes fixed in the form of leptochlorites or siderite.”

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