paragonite

[Gr. paragō =to mislead; n connect., and suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min.: A ma ive mineral consisting of minute scales, with mica-like cleavage. Hardne , 2.5-3; specific gravity, 2779-2-895; luster, pearly; color, yellowish, grayish, green; translucent. E entially a hydrated silicate of alumina and soda. Dana regards it as a hydrous soda mica, and includes it in his margarophyllite section of hydrous silicates; others regard it as a soda damourite. The so-called talc-schist of Monte Campi one, which incloses staurolite and cyanite, is composed principally of IMG:content-0638.png:[blocks in formation] "Faire women whose excellencie is discovered by para gonizing or setting one to another." -Putten ham: English Poesie , bk. iii., ch. xix.