Ampelite, in natural history, is a black, bituminous substance that dissolves in oil; perhaps cannel coal. Historically, it was used to blacken eyebrows and hair. ...
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• (n.) An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.
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Am'pe·lite (ăm'pe*līt)
noun [ Latin
ampelitis , Greek
'ampeli^tis , from
'a`mpelos vine.]
(Min.) An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.
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Ampelite is an earth abounding in pyrites, it was formerly used by the ancients to kill insects, etc. , on vines. The term was applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.
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