Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A glassy, usually yellowish gray variety of orthopyroxene having a magnesium silicate base, mainly MgSiO3, usually found embedded in igneous rocks and meteorites.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A silicate, chiefly of magnesium, with some iron, belonging to the pyroxene group.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.
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- noun mineralogy A form of
pyroxene consisting solely ofmagnesium silicate .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Instead of condensing out hydrocarbons such as asphalt, petroleum jelly, kerosene and gasoline, the exoplanet's atmosphere condenses out minerals such as enstatite, corundum, spinel, and wollastonite.
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Various mineral localities occur throughout the county, of which some of the most important occur on the shore at Portsoy, as for example the gabbro masses in Portsoy Bay with enstatite, hypersthene and labradorite, the graphic granite with microcline, muscovite and tourmaline at East Head, the chiastolite-schist west of the marble quarry, the mottled serpentine with strings of chrysotile.
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He gave his opinion that they are fossils and that they are not crystals of enstatite, as asserted by Prof. Smith, who had never seen them.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Here, in addition to schillerization, the original enstatite has been altered by hydration and the product has approximately the composition of serpentine.
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Under the microscope, the rock consists of biotite, hornblende, serpentinous pseudo-morphs after olivine and possibly after enstatite and magnetite, and may be described as a mica-hornblende-picrite.
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In this connexion mention may be made of an altered form of enstatite or bronzite known as _bastite_ or
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Like enstatite, bronzite is a constituent of many basic igneous rocks, such as norites, gabbros, and especially peridotites, and of the serpentines which have been derived from them.
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BRONZITE, a member of the pyroxene group of minerals, belonging with enstatite and hypersthene to the orthorhombic series of the group.
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Rather than a distinct species, it is really a ferriferous variety of enstatite, which owing to partial alteration has acquired a bronze-like sub-metallic lustre on the cleavage surfaces.
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That left enstatite chondrites, a type of meteorite, as the best match for Earth's water.
Ars Technica John Timmer 2011
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