Min. [f. as prec. + -ITE1.] A general term for those porcelain clays, found in masses of minute crystalline scales, of which kaolin is the typical variety.
1867. Amer. Jrnl. Sc., Ser. II. XLIII. 351. We propose for it [the name] Kaolinite, in allusion to the material which furnishes it most commonly and abundantly.
1875. Ure’s Dict. Arts, I. 809.
1879. Rutley, Stud. Rocks, xiv. 285. By the careful levigation of some clays, Dr. John Percy has eliminated minute, but beautifully-developed, crystals of Kaolinite.
