diallage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of diallage
1795–1805; < French < Greek diallagḗ interchange, change, noun derivative from base of diallássein make an exchange, equivalent to di- di- 3 + allássein to change, exchange
Example Sentences
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These diabases, as they will be called generically, are usually composed of plagioclase feldspar, and diallage or augite; additional and rarer minerals are quartz, olivine, hypersthene, magnetite, ilmenite, and hornblende.
From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by James William Head
I found in it a few garnets, but no metaloid diallage.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
The serpentine is sometimes of an esquillous, sometimes of a conchoidal fracture: this was the first time I had found metalloid diallage within the tropics.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt
It contains no garnet or amphibole, but metalloid diallage disseminated in the mass.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt
In some gabbros and norites reaction rims of fibrous hornblende are found around both hypersthene and diallage where these are in contact with felspar.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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