leucite
Americannoun
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Origin of leucite
From the German word Leukit, dating back to 1790–1800. See leuco-, -ite 1
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There are great beds of it in the green sands of New Jersey, the Cartersville slates of Georgia, and the leucite rocks of Wyoming.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vesuvian lava, glass paste with numerous crystals of leucite; others of olivine, hornblende, and sanidine, porphyritically developed; small grains of magnetite.
From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Hull, Edward
Their commonest minerals are olivine, anorthite, hornblende, augite, biotite and leucite.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Within it they found crystals of leucite already formed, showing that these are the first to grow while the melted rock is still intensely hot.
From Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science by Buckley, Arabella B.
It may be noted that the name of white garnet has been given to the mineral leucite, which occurs, like garnet, crystallized in icositetrahedra.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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