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Andesite
noun · 78% connection
An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Basic
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Bismuth
noun · 78% connection
One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather bri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Cacholong
noun · 78% connection
An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Cancrinite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carb…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Carbon
noun · 78% connection
An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Chert
noun · 78% connection
An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Chrysolite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Cronstedtite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Crystal
noun · 78% connection
The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Dihexagonal
adjective · 78% connection
Consisting of two hexagonal parts united; thus, a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Domite
noun · 78% connection
A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-Dome in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Gneiss
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Isologous
adjective · 78% connection
Having similar proportions, similar relations, or similar differences of composition; -- said specifically of groups or series which d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Lepidomelane
noun · 78% connection
An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Liparite
noun · 78% connection
A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Logic
noun · 78% connection
The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
Metamorphic
adjective · 78% connection
Subject to change; changeable; variable.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pure, silica, like, quartz, crystallizing.
