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- noun Plural form of
syenite .
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Examples
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To this period belong the felspar, syenites, and porphyries.
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The seventh, of syenites, transparent, of the colour of a beryl and the clear hue of Hymetian honey; and within it the moon was seen, such as we see it in the sky, silent, full, new, and in the wane.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The seventh, of syenites, transparent, of the colour of a beryl and the clear hue of Hymetian honey; and within it the moon was seen, such as we see it in the sky, silent, full, new, and in the wane.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He studied in the field, as well as by investigations in the laboratory, for fifteen years, with an intelligent and indefatigable perseverance, and, aided by the results of hundreds of analyses, eruptive masses of the most varied kind, the knowledge derived from which threw light upon the principles of science, from granites and syenites to melaphyres and basalts.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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The granitic rocks included granite, gneisses, syenites and norite.
New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission DeLancey M. Ellis
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The Virginia production comes from pegmatite dikes cutting through gabbros, syenites, and gneisses.
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Some of the most recent measurements of the quantities of radium and thorium in the rocks of igneous origin -- _e. g._ granites, syenites, diorites, basalts, etc., show that the
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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In those days the rocks which are now the very bones and sinews of our mother Earth -- her granites, her porphyries, her basalts, her syenites -- were melted into a liquid mass.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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To this period belong the felspar, syenites, and porphyries.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866
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It was at this epoch that the rocks called feldspars, syenites, and porphyries appeared.
Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866
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