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Felspar

noun
1.
Any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium.  Synonym: feldspar.





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"Felspar" Quotes from Famous Books



... Highlands to the Western continent has more than once attracted the attention of Parliament. The Manufactures are large and comprehensive, and include the most famous distilleries in the world. The Minerals are most abundant, and among these may be reckoned quartz, porphyry, felspar, ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various
... much broken and contorted, and in several parts altered by contact with the porphyry, and no definite strike or dip appeared to exist. The porphyry is of a red-brown colour, consisting of grey paste with crystal of felspar and angular fragments of slate and granite sometimes one foot in length. The granite contains little mica, and the quartz frequently is arranged in rhomboidal crystals nearly parallel to each other; it readily ...
— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory


Words linked to "Felspar" :   oligoclase, orthoclase, silicon, feldspar, moonstone, si, atomic number 14, plagioclase, spar


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