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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In petrography, extremely polic; having more than seven times as much of polic minerals (normative pyroxene, olivin, akermanite) as of mitic minerals (magnetite, hematite, ilmenite, titanite, etc.). See per-, 3, and rock.

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