bronzite

[bron-zahyt]

noun

a greenish-brown or black mineral with a bronzelike luster, an orthorhombic pyroxene, (Mg,Fe)2(Si2O6), intermediate in composition between enstatite and hypersthene.

Origin of bronzite

1810–20; bronze + -ite¹; so called from its sheen

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Historical Examples of bronzite

Hypersthene (or bronzite) is characteristic of another group.
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Other minerals which have been found in eclogites are bronzite, olivine and glaucophane.
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In colour bastite is brown or green with the same metallic sheen as bronzite.
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In this connexion mention may be made of an altered form of enstatite or bronzite known as bastite or schiller-spar.
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Like bronzite, it is sometimes cut and polished for ornamental purposes.
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British Dictionary definitions for bronzite

bronzite

noun

a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen

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