Min. [f. Gr. ἀφρ-ός foam + -ITE; = foam-stone.] A variety of carbonate of lime or calcite.
1868. Dana, Min., 678. Aphrite, in its harder and more sparry variety is a foliated white pearly calcite, near argentine; in its softer kinds it approaches chalk, though lighter, pearly in lustre … and more or less scaly in structure.
