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melilite

[mel-uh-lahyt]

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noun

a sorosilicate mineral group, consisting chiefly of sodium, calcium, and aluminum silicates, occurring in igneous rocks.

Origin of melilite

1790–1800; < New Latin melilithus, equivalent to Greek méli honey + líthos -lite

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Historical Examples of melilite

Melilite, a lime-alumina-silicate, is characteristic of certain very basic rocks, the melilite-basalts.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3
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