Rock butter
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Rock butter (also known as stone butter) is a soft mineral substance found oozing from alum slates.
It consists of native alum mixed with clay and oxide of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white colour, occurring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous slate.
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- http://dict.die.net/rock%20butter/ -- has information from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Rock Butter, from the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms (1996), online at the Hacettepe University Department of Mining Engineering website.
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