Min. [? f. Gr. κόνις, κονία dust, ashes + -ITE.] A variety of DOLOMITE containing a large proportion of carbonate of magnesia; in color ash-gray or greenish gray.
1808. in T. Allan, Names Min., 23.
1818. Blackw. Mag., III. 473. He [Macculloch] has given to it, from its leading character, the name of conite.
