EARTHS, CALCAREOUS. 27. Fluor. 
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spatosus^ Hardifli, fhining, brittle, of a common form, breaking 
into pyramidal fragments, lamellar. 
Muria Japidofa. Syff. nat. xii. 3 p. too. n, 3. 
Fluor mineraiis. ff'alL fy!i. min. I . 1 73, ». 2. 
Fluor fpar. Kir^wan miniral. 1. p. 127, 
Sparry fluor. Schmeiffer mineral. 1. p. z^j. 
Fluor fpar. 'Thom/ia chem. 3. 7). 619. 
?. With the fragments into which it falls fpontaneoully, refembling 
very minute granulations. 
Fluor mineral, granular. Wall.jpt. i. i>. 175. n. 3. 
Found in Britain, Norvja^, ^=wellen, Spain, and Germany, tvhite 
fmoke-colour, green, violet, purple, rofy, honey-colour, or 
varied with fpots, blotches or veins, femipellucid or tranfpa- 
rent, breaking into 3, rarely 4-rided fragments, takes a fine 
polilh, and is manufaiflured into various vafes and figures t 
contains carbonate of lime 73, fluoric acid 16, water 27. 
tahularis. In rhombic oblong tables. 
Fluor cryft^ lamell. Wall.fyst. i. p. 177. a, 4. 
Slorr. dlpenr. 2. p. 46. 
Found in Snreitxerland , Aljace, and Saxony, 
(lil/icus, Hardifh, fhining, fmootb, lamellar, brittle, breaking in- 
to pyramidal fragments, cubic. 
Fluor cryft. rhomb. Wall. fist. i. p. 176. n. 4. a. 
Fluor crylL cubic. Cronst. min. Jia. too. 
Fluate of lime. Soberly Brit, miner, tab, 1 1, 73. 
1 . With the cubes perfecl. 
2. With the angles of the cube truncate. 
3. With the margins of the cube truncate. 
4. With the angles and margins of the cube truncate. 
5. With the margins terminating in a point. 
The faces flat. 
The faces concave, 
6. With the margins of the cube terminating in a 3-lided py- 
ramid. 
Found in Derbyjhire and Nortlumherland, Spain, France, Saxony< 
Germany, &c. of the fame variety in colours as FI. fpatofvis; 
moll frequently pellucid, rarely opalte; the cryllals folid or 
hollow, or containing a fmall drop of water or forae foffile. 
^ and placed in a decufl'ate manner, laterally, or irregular, or 
aggregate in a kidney or imperfeftly globular form. 
pramidalis Hardifh, fliining, lamellar, brittle, breaking into pyra- 
midal fragments. 
Alumen fpatolum. Syst. nat. xii. 3. p, 102. «, 3. 
Cryftallus alumini formis. Amxn. acad, i. /. 481. 
