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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white, gray, green, or yellow variety of plagioclase feldspar that contains approximately equal proportions of sodium and calcium and occurs in igneous rocks of intermediate silica content, such as andesite and diorite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the
Andes .
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- noun mineralogy
Sodium calcium aluminum silicate , (), aplagioclase feldspar , the third member of the albite-anorthitesolid solution series. Found in fine-grainedandesite lavas;crystals are rarely seen.
Etymologies
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Named for the type locality in the Andes Mountains.
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