COLLOPHANE Definition & Meaning

collophane

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[kol-uh-feyn]

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Mineralogy.

a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.

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1915–20; < German Kollophan, equivalent to Greek koll(a) glue + -o- -o- + -phan -phane ( def. )

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