Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white or gray mineral of potassium aluminum silicate, KAlSi2O6.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral originally found in the recent volcanic rocks of southern Italy, especially at Vesuvius, disseminated through the lavas in crystals, usually trapezohedrons, or in irregular masses.
- noun A small yellowish body found in the cotyledons of a germinating plant that has not been exposed to sunlight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral having a glassy fracture, occurring in translucent trapezohedral crystals. It is a silicate of alumina and potash KAlSi2O6. It is found in the volcanic rocks of Italy, especially at Vesuvius.
- noun (Bot.) A leucoplast.
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- noun mineralogy A
mineral ofsilica -poorigneous ,plutonic andvolcanic rocks . Chemically, leucite is a potassiumfeldspar with insufficient silica to satisfy the chemical bonds. Because of the unfilled bonds, leucite weathers rapidly and can only be seen as inclusions in freshly broken rock. - noun botany A
leucoplast .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As regards Kaiser Wilhelm Land, the Gaussberg is a volcanic cone mainly composed of leucite-basalt, but its slopes are strewn with erratics presumably transported from the south and these include gneiss, mica-schist and quartzite, apparently Archaean.
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These include the cesium - and potassium-rich zeolites, pollucite and leucite, and the lithium-rich mica, zinnwaldite (a variety of the mineral lepidolite).
Rubidium 2008
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Dürkheim; it is also found in lepidolite, leucite, petalite, triphylline and in the carnallite from Stassfurt.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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The flows from Kibo include nepheline and leucite basanite lavas rich in soda felspars.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Several days might be profitably spent by the antiquarian in investigating the contents of the different tiers of galleries; while the geologist would find matter for interesting speculation in the partial intrusion of the older lithoid tufa here and there into the softer and more recent volcanic deposits in which the passages are excavated, and in which numerous decomposing crystals of leucite may be observed.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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These machines are about six feet high in the whole, made of a rough gray volcanic stone, full of large crystals of leucite.
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Various potassium silicates -- leucite, feldspar, sericite, and glauconite -- and the potassium sulphate, alunite, have received attention and certain of them have been utilized to a small extent, but none of them are normally able to compete on the market.
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Minor amounts have been extracted in Utah from the mineral alunite (a sulphate of potassium and aluminum), in Wyoming from leucite (a potassium-aluminum silicate), in
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Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of
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Notwithstanding the great number of blocks, which we stopped to break, to the great regret of our guides, we could discover neither nepheline, leucite, * nor feldspar.
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