Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A member of the scapolite group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.
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- noun mineralogy A
silicate mineral belonging to thescapolite group.
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Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of
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Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of Teneriffe; for a reddish-grey lava, which we found on the slope of Monte Verde, and which contains small microscopic crystals, appears to me to be a close mixture of basalt and analcime.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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