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Augitic

Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.

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Augite 74% connected

A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term p…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Augite 74% connected

A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term p…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Augite 66% connected

A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term p…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Albite noun · 78% connection

A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common cons…

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Anorthite noun · 78% connection

A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime…

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Ashtoreth noun · 78% connection

The principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity.

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Auger noun · 78% connection

An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upo…

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Basalt noun · 78% connection

A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green…

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Bi- unknown · 78% connection

In the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms, parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is prefi…

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Biotite noun · 78% connection

Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.

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Chlorite noun · 78% connection

a generally green or black mineral; it occurs as a constituent of many rocks typically in the form of a flat crystal

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Cystine noun · 78% connection

A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasional…

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Decomposition noun · 78% connection

The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into const…

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Deuterogenic adjective · 78% connection

Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

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Epizootic adjective · 78% connection

Containing fossil remains; -- said of rocks, formations, mountains, and the like.

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Face noun · 78% connection

The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object.

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Foliation noun · 78% connection

The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of…

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Gtraystone noun · 78% connection

A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.

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Head noun · 78% connection

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

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Head word noun · 78% connection

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

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Hero noun · 78% connection

The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achi…

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