[f. FIBRO- + Gr. λίθος stone; see also -ITE.] A fibrous mineral consisting chiefly of aluminium silicate.
1802. Bournon, in Phil. Trans., XCII. 289. Fibrolite … always … either of a white colour, or of a dirty gray.
1803. Nicholson’s Jrnl., IV. 14. Fibrolite accompanying the matrix of corundum.
1884. Dana, Min., 375 Fibrolite was much used for stone implements … in the ‘Stone age.’
Hence Fibrolitic a., containing fibrolite.
1879. Dana, Man. Geol. (ed. 3), 72.
