melanite
[mel-uh-nahyt]
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noun Mineralogy.
a deep black variety of andradite garnet.
Origin of melanite
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Biotite occurs in some of these rocks, and melanite also is present.
Melanite is found in some of the lavas, as in the leucite-syenites.
The dark matrix consists of biotite, aegirine-augite and melanite.
Their pyroxene is principally aegirine or aegirine augite; some of them are rich in melanite.
melanite
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