feldspathic

• “The rock here is a porphyritic granite (porhyritic meaning that the stone has large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass).”

  Of Books and the Sea

• “And as far as craftsmanship, depending on which cosmetic dentist you go to, he or she will work with porcelain veneers fabricated by a machine out of Lucite, or porcelain veneers handcrafted out of feldspathic porcelain by a master artist (yes, I call the people who do this type of work artists.)”

  The Huffington Post: Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Celebrity Smiles: Why Do They Have to Be So Perfect ? How?

• “The composition is what we ceramic engineers call Âfeldspathic.”

  European Lithographic | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles

• “The Northern Inner Piedmont (45e) is characteristically underlain by highly deformed and deeply weathered Cambrian and Proterozoic feldspathic gneiss, schist, and melange.”

  Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)

• “Between the heavy clays and blue mud of the mangrove swamps and the granite and sandstone of the mountain ranges, the undulating rises are mainly composed of red clay, sandstones, shales, and granitic and feldspathic rocks, with extensive deposits of laterite in red clays on the surface.”

  The Golden Chersonese and the way thither

• “Near the coast the rough lava is quite bare: in the central and higher parts feldspathic rocks by their decomposition have produced”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “The first true porcelain with high-fired feldspathic glaze probably dates from about this time.”

  b. Political, Social, and Cultural Patterns

• “Sienite and feldspar succeeded in our descent to the snow line, where we found a feldspathic granite.”

  The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself

• “English bone porcelains are very beautiful, and though they are not genuine feldspathic products they are highly esteemed and in demand everywhere.”

  The Story of Porcelain

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