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melilite
[ mel-uh-lahyt ]
/ ˈmɛl əˌlaɪt /
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noun
a sorosilicate mineral group, consisting chiefly of sodium, calcium, and aluminum silicates, occurring in igneous rocks.
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Origin of melilite
Words nearby melilite
meliaceous, Meliae, melic, melick, Méliès, melilite, Melilla, melilot, Melinda, melinite, melioidosis
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How to use melilite in a sentence
Melilite, a lime-alumina-silicate, is characteristic of certain very basic rocks, the melilite-basalts.
Many of them also contain nepheline, sodalite, hauyne and nosean; the much rarer mineral melilite appears also in some examples.