hypersthenite

English

Etymology

From hypersthene +‎ -ite.

Noun

hypersthenite (countable and uncountable, plural hypersthenites)

  1. (mineralogy) A more or less coarsely crystalline igneous rock, allied to gabbro; an aggregate of labradorite (feldspar) and hypersthene, of plutonic origin.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.