English Dictionary:
- An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called
because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent
rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last
called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral
iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.
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