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collophanite

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col⋅lo⋅phane

  [kol-uh-feyn]
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–noun Mineralogy.
a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
Also, col⋅loph⋅a⋅nite  [kuh-lof-uh-nahyt, kol-uh-fuh-] .

Origin:
1915–20; < G Kollophan, equiv. to Gk koll(a) glue + -o- -o- + -phan -phane
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