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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In petrography, in the quantitative system of classification of igneous rocks (see rock), having equal or nearly equal amounts of polic minerals (normative pyroxene, olivin, akermanite) and mitic minerals (normative magnetite, ilmenite, titanite, etc.).

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