Chabazite (noun)
chab-a-zait
A colourless, pink, or yellow zeolite mineral, typically occurring as rhombohedral crystals.
Early 19th century from French chabazie, from Greek khabazie, a misreading of khalazie, vocative form of khalazios ‘hailstone’ (from khalaza ‘hail’, because of its form and colour), + -ite.
Example sentences
“It was hard to tell the chabazite from the quartz.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
