Adjective:

फ़ासफ़ोरस तत्त्व-संबंधी,

phosphorite's Usage Examples:

Algeria contains important deposits of phosphorite, especially near Tebessa and at Tocqueville in the province of Constantine.

Then followed the discovery of " hard rockphosphate," a massive mineral, often having cavities lined with nearly pure phosphorite.

Many of the impure substances thus utilized are not strictly phosphorite, but pass under such names as " rock-phosphate," or, when nodular, as " coprolite " (q.v.), even if not of true coprolitic origin.

Phosphorite, when occurring in large deposits, is a mineral of much economic value for conversion into the superphosphate largely used as a fertilizing agent.

Osteolite is a white earthy phosphorite occurring in the clefts of basaltic rocks, named in 1851 by J.

Dahllite is a Norwegian phosphorite, containing calcium carbonate, named in 1888 by W.

Stein in 1866 from the locality Staffel, in the valley of the Lower Lahn, where (as also in the valley of its tributary the Dill) large deposits of phosphorite occur.

The name seems to have been given originally to the Spanish phosphorite, probably because it phosphoresced when heated.

- Those varieties of native calcium phosphate which are not distinctly crystallized, like apatite, but occur in fibrous, compact or earthy masses, often nodular, and more or less impure, are included under the general term phosphorite.

Although similar teeth occur in the phosphorite beds of South Carolina, which may have been transported from elsewhere, no undoubted remains of Megatherium are known from North America.