felspar
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- felspathic adjective
Etymology
Origin of felspar
< German Fels rock + spar 3, by false etymological analysis
Example Sentences
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Everywhere were little grains of felspar, mica, or quartz, which caught the reflection of the light.
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It turned evenly, slowly, noiselessly, and, as it turned, the light from the lamp caused the quartz and mica and felspar in the granite to glisten like a thousand fire-flies on a summer's evening.
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Each mineral may also enclose particles of the others; in the quartz, for example, small crystals of graphite, biotite, iron oxides, sillimanite or felspar may appear in great numbers.
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In it the felspar retains its alkaline element, so that it can be easily melted, and is found a useful and cheap flux for the vitrification of the different mixtures.
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Their felspar ranges from oligoclase to andesite and labradorite, and is often very zonal; sanidine occurs also in some dacites, and when abundant gives rise to rocks which form transitions to the rhyolites.
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