Glauber-ite, n.

n. [Fr. glaubérite, Ger. glauberit, from Glauber, a German physician and chemist, who died 1668.] (Min.) A slightly soluble mineral, consisting of sulphate of soda and sulphate of lime. It occurs in flattened, oblique crystals, somewhat glassy in appearance, and of a yellowish or grayish color. This mineral has been met with only in saltmines. Dana.