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INFLAMMABLES. 75. Mdlites. 
75. MELLITES. Soft, brittle, pellucid, Ihining 
with a glafly lullre, of a conchoidal texture 
and honey-yellow colour: in the form of ^ 
double 4-fided pyramid with the faces 
fmooth. 
Wirntri, Mellites. 
Karsten Lejke mineral. I, 334, 
ylbich Creli’ t annals, 1797. 2. p. 3. 
Vauquelin annal. de chim. 36. 23. 
Mellelite. Kirnuan miner. 2. p. 68. 
Honey flone, SchmeiJJer mineral, i. p, 295. 
Mellite, Mullat of Alumina. Thom/on chem. 3. p. 628. 
Found near Arturn in Saxony, between the layers of wood-coal, 
and in Snuitsurland imbedded in afphalt, in colour, texture 
and tranfparency rcfembling the honey-yellow amber, from 
which it principally differs in cryftalli2ing in fmall double 
4-fided_ pyramids whole angles are often truncated: when 
heated ^it whitens, and burns in the open air without odour, 
and without being fenfibly charred, leaving a white refi' 
duum which at firft has no tafte, but at length leaves an acid 
impreffion on the tongue: fradure conchoidal or indeter- 
minate: fpecific gravity 1,666, 
