Pyroxene - Law Dictionary Search Results

Pyroxene

silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks especially basic igneous

Containing pyroxene composed chiefly of pyroxene

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene

A variety of pyroxene called also fassaite

by the presence of chrysolite peridot It also usually contains pyroxene enstatite chromite etc It is often altered to serpentine

A variety of pyroxene from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont diopside

A variety of pyroxene

An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite with pyroxene and picotite a variety of spinel containing chromium

A variety of pyroxene of olive green color passing into brown It contains zinc

used for a coarsely crystalline igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene diallage and labradorite with sometimes chrysolite olivine gabbro