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Definition of Diopsides
1. diopside [n] - See also: diopside
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diopsides
Literary usage of Diopsides
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 (1922)
"The pyroxenes in the limestones and in the contact zones have, with few exceptions,
been regarded as diopsides. Those associated with the granite-limestone ..."
2. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"Many diopsides can be represented as a combination of one molecule CaSiO., with
one molecule MgSiO3; but a consideration of the ..."
3. A Summary of Progress in Petrography. in 1887-1896 by William Shirley Bayley, William Herbert Hobbs (1893)
"Crystallographic Study of diopsides.—Some very careful crystallographic observations
have been made by A. Schmidt" upon the diopsides of the ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"One or two of the diopsides show fine oscillatory twinning. The cracks are occupied
with calcite or some allied carbonate. There is no real difference ..."
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