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Definition of Augites
1. augite [n] - See also: augite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Augites
Literary usage of Augites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"The typical section shows a few phenocrysts of olivine and augite in a fine-grained
ground mass of lath-shaped feldspars, microscopic augites and olivines, ..."
2. The geography of Herodotus by James Talboys Wheeler (1854)
"... a violent north wind was called " a wind from the Strymon.1"5 EUROPE, extended
westward to the river augites, which CHAP. vi. f^^ into the Strymon, ..."
3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"In looking over the chemical analyses of the augites it will ... The augites are
distinguished from the hornblendes by the cleavage planes being parallel to ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1863)
"In some of these augites, the Mg is almost wholly replaced by iron and calcium.
... The water which it contains renders it softer than the anhydrous augites ..."
5. The Student's Manual of Geology by Joseph Beete Jukes (1872)
"The common augites are chiefly black, and greenish and brownish-black and very
... In the augites of both classes the magnesium is sometimes almost wholly ..."
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