Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing iron and magnesium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing both iron and magnesium: applied to minerals and also to rocks.
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- adjective That contains both
iron andmagnesium
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Examples
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Many of the latter are magnetite, while the others are hornblende and various ferromagnesian silicates.
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This alteration consists of quartz veinlets, clays, sericite, pyrite, and iron-oxides replacing feldspar, ferromagnesian minerals and plagioclase.
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Although ferromagnesian silicate spinels (such as ringwoodite) were later found to break down to simple oxides or stishovite plus perovskite, several post-spinel oxides experimentally convert into a single phase with the CaFe2O4-type and CaTi2O4-type structures.
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Although ferromagnesian silicate spinels (such as ringwoodite) were later found to break down to simple oxides or stishovite plus perovskite, several post-spinel oxides experimentally convert into a single phase with the CaFe2O4-type and CaTi2O4-type structures.
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Although ferromagnesian silicate spinels (such as ringwoodite) were later found to break down to simple oxides or stishovite plus perovskite, several post-spinel oxides experimentally convert into a single phase with the CaFe2O4-type and CaTi2O4-type structures.
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