schrankIa

[Named after F. Schrank, a German botanist.] Bot.: A genus of Eumimosee. Schrankia uncin ata is the Pink Sensitive Plant of New Mexico. schrauf-ite (au as ow), subst . [After Prof. A. Schrauf, of Vienna; suff. -ite ( Min .).] Min .: A fo il resin occurring in schistose sandstone, at Wamma, Bukowina. Hardne , 2-3; specific gravity, 10-1-12; color, hyacinth-red to blood-red. Composition: Carbon, 73.81; hydrogen. 8.82: oxygen, 17:37, which leads to the formula, C11H1602. schrei-bērş-ite, s. [After Carl von Schreibers; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min .: A mineral occurring only in meteoric iron. It forms steel-gray folia, lying between the crystalline plates of the various alloys of iron and nickel of which meteoric iron consists. Hardne , 6.5; specific gravity, 7-01-7-22. Composition: E entially a phosphide of iron and nickel schrode, s. [SCRODE.] schroeck-ing-er-ite, s. [After Dr. Schroeckinger; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min.: A hydrous oxy-carbonate of uranium, occurring at Joachimsthal, Bohemia, in small, sixsided, tabular crystals, implanted on uraninite (q. v.).