Greensand

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A naturally occurring green-color sand that contains carbonates and Glauconite along with a large percentage of Silica, Potash, and Alumina. Greensand is used for water filtration and water softening because it extracts Calcium and Magnesium from the water. It is also used as a refractory material in foundries. See also Foundry sand.

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Glaukonitsand (Deut.)

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G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 238

Thomas Gregory, The Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Reinhold Publishing, New York, 3rd ed., 1942

Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000

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