6S 
Aluta, 
argentifer. 
^Irosus, 
•vulgaris. 
EARTHS. TALCOSE. 4* ASinotus. 
Flexible, floating, in thin lamellar pieces. 
Amiant.corticof. membranac. Syfi. nat xii. 3. f. 57. ». 9. 
Amiant. fibris mollior. Wall fiH. i./. 399, ». 7. 
Aluta Montana. I'ogel mineral. IJl. 
Found in Siberia, Ruffia, Saxeden, Hungary, Tyrol, France, ScC, 
in pieces ot the t icknefs and c nfift-nce of fine ftioe-leathef 
or thick brown paper; colour white, cinereous, or pale 
yellowifh. 
Flexible, brownifli-red, in thin lamellar pieces, highly 
charged with filver ore. 
Lehmann ph')f chem, Berlin, 1761. 8. p. 1 1 6. 
Found in the mines ol Hercyma, Carolina, and Dorothea, 
4.. ACTINOTUS. Confifting of carbonate of 
magnefia, a larger proportion of oxyde of iron, 
and the greater part filica : harfli to the touch, 
. Ihining, rigid, fragile, parafitic, generally of a 
green colour, Jpontaneoiiflv falling into granular 
fragments, but breaking into indeterminate frag- 
ments; melting in the fire, with ebullition, into 
a pellucid 6-coloured globule. 
Opake, foft, fhining within, fibrous with the fibres di- 
verging. 
Hofmann Bergm. journ, 1789. 1. p. 163, 
Found with pyrites in the mines of Saxony, ot a glafly luftre, 
fometiines grejifh-white, greenilh or reddilh white, or cine- 
reous ; feels a little grcafy to the touch. 
Shining, hardilh, pellucid or diaphanous, radiate or ftriate. 
Albefloid. Ktraxan mineral, \ . p- 166. 
Radiated or Itriated Shorl. Schmeijfer, i. p. 206. 
Aftinote. Tbomjorls chtmiffry, 3. p. 596, 597. 
1. With the rays parallel. 
2. With the rays divergent- 
3- With the rays fafcicled. 
4. With the rays ftcllate. 
5. With the rays fcattered. 
6. Pellucid, in 6 fided, elongated, comprefled prifms. 
Found in the Iron mines of Snueden, the quarries of Saxony, and 
the mountains of Fraconia and Tyrol, in long flattilli 4 or 6- 
fided cryftals, which are brittle and not flexible: feels very 
lligntly, if any thing, greafy to the touch ; colour greenilh- 
white or reddilh-grey ; it often conftitutcs the matrix of 
metallic ores: contains filica 43. carbonate of lime 2Z» 
iron 34. 
