Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BAR-Y-STRON'TI-AN-ITE
BAR'TRAMBAR'Y-TA, or BAR'Y-TES
BAR-Y-STRON'TI-AN-ITE, n. [Gr. βαρυς, heavy, and strontian.]
A mineral, called also Stromnite, from Stromness, in Orkney. It has been found in masses of a grayish white color internally, but externally of a yellowish white. – Traill. Cleaveland. Phillips.
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