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Definition of: ankerite
(ang′kər·īt) noun
A mineral resembling dolomite, composed of a white, red, or grayish calcium-magnesium-iron carbonate crystallizing in the hexagonal system. [after Prof. Anker, Austrian mineralogist]
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