Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CRICH'TON-ITE
CRICH'TON-ITE, n.
A mineral, so called from Dr. Crichton, physician to the emperor of Russia. It has a velvet black color, and crystallizes in very acute small rhomboids. It occurs in primitive rocks with octahedrite. – Ure.
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