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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In petrography, in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks (see rock), having equal or nearly equal proportions of tilic minerals (normative titan-ite, ilmenite, perofskite, rutile) and hemic minerals (normative magnetite and hematite), that is, within the limits .

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