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Definition of Enstatites
1. enstatite [n] - See also: enstatite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enstatites
Literary usage of Enstatites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals: An Aid to the by Harry Rosenbusch (1889)
"The angle between the optic axes varies considerably, chiefly with the iron
percentage : for enstatites and ..."
2. Lithological Studies: A Description and Classification of the Rocks of the by Marshman Edward Wadsworth (1884)
"The larger enstatites frequently show a greenish fibrous alteration extending
along the fissures and sometimes reaching the main body of the crystal. ..."
3. Annual Report of the Geological Commission by George Steuart Corstorphine, Arthur William Rogers (1907)
"—A coarse-grained rock in which the enstatites are sometimes more than ...
—A dull black rock containing bright platy enstatites sometimes over an inch ..."
4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1891)
"... and in a tuff from Glaramara one good-sized serpentine-pseudomorph is also
seen, the form being quite that of the enstatites of andesites, etc. ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"(7) In certain finely striated chondrites, a rectilinear columnar arrangement
may be seen, identical with the structure of certain terrestrial enstatites ..."
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