leucite
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
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
Leucite-basalts contain small rounded crystals of leucite in place of plagioclase felspar.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
Group of leucite crystals of irregular form from the lava of 1855, congregated around a nucleus of crystals of plagioclase and magnetite.
From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull
These extensive sheets of water are surrounded by banks of tuff and volcanic sand, in which fragments of augite, leucite, and crystals of titanite are distributed.
From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull
They had very little leucite and abounded in pyroxene and olivine, and sometimes contained a few crystals of amphibole.3.
From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Luigi Palmieri
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