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Definition of Pinite

Pinite
Pinite Pi"nite, n. [L. pinus the pine tree.] 1. (Paleon.) Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family. 2. (Chem.) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.
Pinite
Pinite Pin"ite, n. [So called from Pini, a mine in Saxony.] (Min.) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.

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- and ornaments of various kinds. Other soft compact minerals (steatite and pinite) used for these Chinese carvings are included with pyrophyllite under the...
- Heinrich Göppert named the common amber-yielding pine of the Baltic forests Pinites succiniter, but as the wood does not seem to differ from that of the existing...
- since the 1850s that the resin that became amber was produced by the tree Pinites succinifer, but research in the 1980s concluded that the resin originates...
- Matonidium goepperti Onychiopsis mantelli Pecopteris conybeari P. polymorpha Pinites solmsi Polypodites mantelli Ruffordia goepperti Sagenopteris mantelli Sphenopteris...
- palikuensis Hardy, 1960 Lestremia parvostylia Jaschhof, 1994 Lestremia pinites Meunier, 1904 Lestremia sanctijohanni Rao, 1951 Lestremia solidaginis (Felt...