Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A whitish or yellowish form of the mineral olivine, Mg2SiO4, in which the mafic component consists entirely of magnesium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystallized mineral which occurs at Vesuvius accompanied by pleonaste and pyroxene.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A white variety of
olivine that is mostlymagnesium silicate Mg2SiO4.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was the crew of Apollo 15 who first found green olivine - specifically, a magnesium-rich variety that goes by the name forsterite, which is also the kind that was spotted by Spitzer.
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It was the crew of Apollo 15 who first found green olivine - specifically, a magnesium-rich variety that goes by the name forsterite, which is also the kind that was spotted by Spitzer.
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The resulting magnesium silicate recrystallizes to form forsterite and silica in the temperature range 800-850° C, as an exothermic process.
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The existence of forsterite in a star like HOPS-68 is not entirely without precedent; the crystals have been found in the vicinity of young stars before, but never so high up - and never behaving like rain before.
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But that's not a problem if the forsterite wasn't created there at all.
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The existence of forsterite in a star like HOPS-68 is not entirely without precedent; the crystals have been found in the vicinity of young stars before, but never so high up - and never behaving like rain before.
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But that's not a problem if the forsterite wasn't created there at all.
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As they cool off, they transform into forsterite, a type of silicate crystal often found in comets in our solar system.
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