Definitions For Sillimanite
Noun
SILLIMANITE. (countable and uncountable, plural SILLIMANITEs) (mineral) A fibrous neosilicate mineral, polymorphic with andalusite and kyanite, with the chemical formula aluminum, al2silicon, sioxygen, o5.Synonyms
bucholzite fibroliteTranslations
Dutch: sillimaniet, ? Finnish: sillimaniitti French: sillimanite, f German: Sillimanit, m Italian: sillimanite, f Spanish: silimanita, fEtymology
From {{af, en, Silliman, -ite}}. Named after American chemist and geologist Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) in 1824.Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997Is Sillimanite a Scrabble Word?
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The word Sillimanite is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends