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What is a mineraloid?

What is a mineraloid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A substance that resembles a mineral but does not exhibit crystallinity.
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To recapitulate animal-like, vegetable-like and mineraloid states, in a frankly degenerating manner, is certainly not very pleasant.
The mineraloid is usually found in the ore cinnabar, where it must go through a heating and condensing process to be obtained.
Anthracite is similar in appearance to the mineraloid jet and is sometimes used as a jet imitation.
Thielsen's spire-like top is hit by lightning so frequently that some rocks on the summit have melted into a rare mineraloid known as lechatelierite, a variety of fulgurite.
The black mineraloid jet, the compressed remains of ancestors of the monkey-puzzle tree, is found in the cliffs and on the moors and has been used since the Bronze Age to make beads.

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