sassoline
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Sasso, a town in Italy: compare French sassolin.
Noun edit
sassoline (uncountable)
- (mineralogy) Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sassoline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)