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celestine

Mineral consisting of strontium sulphate, SrSO4, occurring as white or light blue crystals. Celestine occurs in cavity linings associated with calcite, dolomite, or fluorite. It is the principal source of strontium.

Celestine is found in small quantities in Germany, Italy, and the USA.
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Xavier Rabourdin fell desperately in love with Mademoiselle Celestine Leprince, then seventeen years of age, who had all the matrimonial claims of a dowry of two hundred thousand francs.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
Old Celestine, who works occasionally for me, says she will come stay with me and do my work.
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of Cicero to the mortuology of the Celestine Fathers, and a barbarian neither in scholastics, nor in politics, nor in rhythmics, that sophism of sophisms.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
 
 
 
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