Also 9 erithrite. [f. as prec. + -ITE.]

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  1.  Min. a. = COBALT-BLOOM. b. ‘A flesh-coloured feldspar, containing 3 per cent. magnesia, found in amygdaloid’ (Watts, Dict. Chem., 1882).

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1844.  Dana, Min., 351. The Erythrite of Thomson … is a flesh colored feldspar. Ibid. (1868), 559. Erythrite when abundant is valuable for the manufacture of smalt.

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  2.  Chem. An organic substance obtainable from erythrin.

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1865.  Williamson, Chem. for Students, li. § 312. The formula of erithrite is C4 H10 O1.

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1869.  Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 391. The only tetravalent alcohol as yet known is erythrite.

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