Chrysolite - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: chrysoliteBoltonite
A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color found in Bolton Massachusetts It is a silicate of magnesium belonging to the chrysolite family...
Chondrule
A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral usually enstatite or chrysolite found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones which are hence called chondrites...
Chrysolite
A mineral composed of silica magnesia and iron of a yellow to green color It is common in certain volcanic rocks called also olivine and peridot Sometimes used as a gem The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz...
Fayalite
A black greenish or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group It is a silicate of iron...
Gabbro
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine later to the rock called euphotide and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene diallage and labradorite with sometimes chrysolite olivine gabbro...
Lherzolite
An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite with pyroxene and picotite a variety of spinel containing chromium...
Metasomatism
An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance as of chrysolite to serpentine opposed to ordinary metamorphism as implying simply a recrystallization...
Olivine
A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite esp the variety found in eruptive rocks It is a silicate of magnesium and iron MgFeSiO4...
Peridot
Chrysolite...
Peridotite
An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite peridot It also usually contains pyroxene enstatite chromite etc It is often altered to serpentine...
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