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What is a chlorite?

What is a chlorite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A dark green mineral resembling serpentine, being a mixed silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminium.
  2. (chemistry) Any salt of chlorous acid.
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Late chlorite and carbonates overgrew the schistosity defined by phengite, chlorite and quartz.
The sphalerite is associated with needle quartz, microcrystals of yellow-green epidote, and small spheres of a member of the chlorite group.
The light colored andradite varieties topazolite and demantoid occur mainly in serpentinites and chlorite schists.
There is much chlorite growth, but quartz is only very poorly recrystallized.
A variety of minerals were deposited in the hollow vesicles, including chlorite, prehnite, quartz, epidote, microcline, and pumpellyite.
The clay is composed of illite and kaolinite, with minor amounts of chlorite and smectite.

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