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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several varieties of the mineral pyroxene, such as diopside and augite, that have monoclinic crystals.
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- noun mineralogy Any
pyroxene that has amonoclinic crystal structure.
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Figure parts a-e with crossed nichols. (a) Micrographic groundmass surrounds feldspar phenocryst fragment. (b) Micrographic groundmass around clinopyroxene phenocryst.
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Blocks of anorthoclase - and clinopyroxene-bearing micorgaphic granophyre (click for photo) were ejected with rhyolitic pumice during a late-Pleistocene eruption at the Alid volcanic center, Eritrea.
Granophyre.html 1998
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