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Definition of Pyroxenes
1. pyroxene [n] - See also: pyroxene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyroxenes
Literary usage of Pyroxenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minerals and Rocks: The Elements of Mineralogy and Lithology for the Use of by William Shirley Bayley (1915)
"pyroxenes AND AMPHIBOLES The pyroxenes and amphiboles comprise a large group of
complex silicates that crystallize in various systems with different habits. ..."
2. Minerals and Rocks: The Elements of Mineralogy and Lithology for the Use of by William Shirley Bayley (1915)
"pyroxenes AND AMPHIBOLES The pyroxenes and amphiboles comprise a large group of
complex silicates that crystallize in various systems with different habits. ..."
3. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1822)
"Researches respecting' the pyroxenes, &c. by M. Henry Rose. ... the general result
of the great work of M. Rose on the pyroxenes, viz. that these stones are ..."
4. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"Apparently, for some reason the amphiboles are more stable under conditions of
moderately deep-seated metamorphism than the pyroxenes. ..."
5. The Data of Geochemistry by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1908)
"THE pyroxenes. Enstatite.—Orthorhombic. Composition, MgSiO3, but generally with
admixtures of ... pyroxenes."
6. Essentials for the Microscopical Determination of Rock-forming Minerals and by Albert Johannsen (1922)
"Basal sections of orthorhombic sections in convergent light show the emergence
of a positive bisectrix in the center of the field, monoclinic pyroxenes ..."
7. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"... a series of intermediate isomorphous mixtures; they include minerals belonging
to no less than three different systems. MONOCLINIC pyroxenes Diopside. ..."
8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"During this initial stage of development, high-temperature recrystallization
occurred, which resulted in the breakdown of alumina- rich pyroxenes with the ..."
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