Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A yellowish to black mineral, Fe2SiO4, of the olivine group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A black, greenish, or brownish, sometimes iridescent, mineral, consisting mainly of silicate of iron and belonging to the chrysolite group.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy Yellow, olive green, brown or black
mineral withorthorhombic crystals of theolivine group,Fe 2Si O 4.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[German Fayalit, from Fayal, Faial.]
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fayal (“Faial Island in the Azores”) + -ite. Named in 1840.
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Examples
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All of the brightly colored crystals are of the same mineral (an iron silicate called fayalite) but display different colors because the lattices of each crystal are at different angles to the plane of the section.
Art Knowledge News 2008
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The black network within the fayalite crystals is of a second mineral, an iron-aluminum spinel called hercynite, that crystallized at the same time as the fayalite, giving rise to complex intergrowths of the two minerals.
Art Knowledge News 2008
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