saponite
English
Noun
saponite (countable and uncountable, plural saponites)
- (mineralogy) A trioctahedral smectite mineral.
Synonyms
- piotine, soapstone
Hypernyms
- smectite group
Hyponyms
- bowlingite
- griffithite
- sobotkite
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Saponite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “saponite”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.