melilite
[mel-uh-lahyt]
- a sorosilicate mineral group, consisting chiefly of sodium, calcium, and aluminum silicates, occurring in igneous rocks.
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Melilite, a lime-alumina-silicate, is characteristic of certain very basic rocks, the melilite-basalts.