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Leucite

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tephritenoun(geology) An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both.
trachytenoun(geology) A pale igneous rock consisting mostly of potassium feldspar and plagioclase.
basaltnoun(mineralogy) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.
basanitenoun(geology) A basaltic extrusive rock, similar to chert.
leucititenoun(geology) A form of igneous rock that contains leucite.
leucophanitenoun(mineralogy) A sorosilicate mineral that occurs in pegmatites and alkali igneous complexes as yellow, greenish or white triclinic crystals.
leucophanenounAlternative form of leucophanite. [(mineralogy) A sorosilicate mineral that occurs in pegmatites and alkali igneous complexes as yellow, greenish or white triclinic crystals.]
leucopyritenoun(mineralogy) löllingite.
leucosomenoun(geology) A coarse-grained quartzofeldspathic vein
leucophosphitenoun(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, phosphorus, and potassium.
pseudoleucitenoun(geology) A pseudomorph of leucite that is a mixture of nepheline and orthoclase
leucitoidnoun(crystallography) The trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron, the form of the mineral leucite.
chesterlitenoun(mineralogy) A variety of microcline from Chester County, Pennsylvania.
plagioleucititenoun(geology) An altered form of leucitite
nephelinenoun(mineralogy) A feldspathoid mineral of silica-poor igneous, plutonic and volcanic rocks. Chemically, nepheline is a plagioclase feldspar with insufficient silica to satisfy the chemical bonds. Because of the unfilled bonds, nepheline weathers rapidly and can only be seen as inclusions in freshly broken rock.
leucophoenicitenoun(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.
leucosphenitenoun(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing barium, boron, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and titanium.
leuconephelinitenoun(geology) A light nephelinite
leucoxenenoun(mineralogy) A mineral, mostly composed of rutile, occurring in igneous rocks, often by alteration of ilmenite or other titanium minerals
amphigenenoun(mineralogy) Leucite.

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