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Apophyllite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Argentine
noun · 78% connection
A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Belonite
noun · 78% connection
Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Brewsterite
noun · 78% connection
A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Concretional
adjective · 78% connection
Concretionary.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Crystallite
noun · 78% connection
A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not ref…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Devitrification
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Diaspore
noun · 78% connection
A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Eaglestone
noun · 78% connection
A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle tr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Ehlite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Fiorite
noun · 78% connection
A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly lus…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Geocronite
noun · 78% connection
A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arse…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Geyserite
noun · 78% connection
A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and gey…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Glassy
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Globuliferous
adjective · 78% connection
Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated glo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Granite
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It diff…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Heulandite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
Hypersthene
noun · 78% connection
An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: glassy, volcanic, rock, grayish, color.
