Definition & Meaning | English word BRONZITE
BRONZITE
Definitions of BRONZITE
- (mineral) A ferriferous variety of enstatite, often with a bronze-like lustre.
Number of letters
8
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Examples of Using BRONZITE in a Sentence
- In addition, black, chatoyant hypersthene and brownish bronzite are also used as semi-precious gemstones.
- Pyroxenite is an ultramafic igneous rock consisting essentially of minerals of the pyroxene group, such as augite, diopside, hypersthene, bronzite or enstatite.
- These rocks in turn include amphibole, apatite, biotite, clinopyroxene, garnet, ilmenite, mica, olivine, orthopyroxene, plagioclase, pyroxene in the form of augite, bronzite, diopside, hypersthene and salite, and quartz.
- The Ultramafic series is composed of a lower peridotite member (Peridotite zone) consisting of alternating dunite, chromitite, harzburgite and bronzite pyroxenite.
- A similar effect is also occasionally typical for some potassium feldspars (orthoclases), anthophyllite, and quite often for enstatite and bronzite.
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