"Tremolite" Quotes from Famous Books
... a sandstone in Skye, which may be moulded like dough when first found; and some simple minerals, which are rigid and as hard as glass in our cabinets, are often flexible and soft in their native beds: this is the case with asbestos, sahlite, tremolite, and chalcedony, and it is reported also to happen in the case of the beryl. (Dr. MacCulloch System of Geology ... — The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell |