Szabadka
a town of Hungary; on the plain that lies between the Danube and the Theiss; 106 miles S. by E. of Budapest. It is the center of a rich agricultural district, with a trade in cattle, skins, wool, corn, fruit, tobacco, etc. Pop. about 94,000.
SZABOITE after Prof. J. Szabó, of Budapest), a mineral occurring in minute crystals in cavities of an andesite, Transylvania; crystallization, triclinic ; hardness, 6-7; sp. gr., 3.505; luster, vitreous; color, hair brown to hyacinth-red. Composition: Essentially a silicate of iron and lime. Now shown to be related to hypersthene. a SZAIBELYITE (after Herr Szaibelyi), a mineral occurring in small nodules bristling with acicular crystals in limestone at Werksthal, Hungary; color, externally white, internally yellow. Essentially a hydrousborate of magnesia.