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Encyclopedia Britannica



MAGNESITE

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 319 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MAGNESITE , a
mineral
  consisting of magnesium carbonate, MgCO3, and belonging to the calcite group of rhombohedral carbonates. It is rarely found in crystals or crystalline masses, being usually compact or earthy and intermixed with more or less hydrous magnesium silicate (meerschaum). The compact material has' the
appearance
  of unglazed
porcelain
 , and the earthy that of
chalk
 . In colour it is usually dead white, some-times yellowish. The hardness of the crystallized
mineral
  is 4; sp. gr. 3.1. The name magnesite as originally applied by J. C. Delametherie in 1797 included several minerals containing magnesium, and at the present day it is used by French writers for meerschaum. The mineral has also been called baudisserite from the locality Baudissero near Ivrea in Piedmont. Breunnerite is a ferriferous variety.
Magnesite is a product of alteration of magnesium silicates, and occurs as veins and patches in serpentine,
talc
 -schist or dolomite-
rock
 . It is extensively
mined
  in the
island
  of Euboea in the Grecian Archipelago, near Salem in
Madras
 , and in California, U.S.A. It is principally used for the manufacture of highly refractory fire-bricks for lining steel furnaces and electric furnaces; also for making plaster, tiles and artificial stone; for the preparation of magnesium salts (Epsom salts, &c.); for whitening
paper
 -pulp and wool; and as a paint.


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