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Definition of Melilite
1. n. A mineral occurring in small yellow crystals, found in the lavas (melilite basalt) of Vesuvius, and elsewhere.
Definition of Melilite
1. Noun. (minerology) any mineral consisting of a solid solution of gehlenite (Ca2Al2SiO7) and akermanite (Ca2MgSi2O7) ¹
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Definition of Melilite
1. a mineral group [n -S]
Medical Definition of Melilite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Melilite
Literary usage of Melilite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Metallurgy: An Introduction to the Metallurgy of the Metals by Charles Herman Fulton (1910)
"Silicate degree = 1. In the absence of the R bases, viz. Mg,Fe,Mn), the limiting
conditions as regards the individualization of melilite or ..."
2. The Data of Geochemistry by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1908)
"With almost no change of composition, other than loss of water, it was transformed
into a mixture of andalusite and biotite. THE melilite GROUP. melilite. ..."
3. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"melilite has a widespread distribution in the leucite and nephelite rocks. ...
Some of the rocks in which melilite occurs are ..."
4. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"melilite occurs in non-feldspathic basic igneous rocks low in silica, ... It is
not of common occurrence, and is found in melilite-basalt of ..."
5. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"melilite has been formed artificially by fusing together it-s constituent oxides.
... melilite of yellow and brownish colors is found at Capo di Bove, ..."
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