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hypersthenite
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English
Etymology
From hypersthene + -ite.
Noun
hypersthenite (countable and uncountable, plural hypersthenites)
- (mineralogy) A more or less coarsely crystalline igneous rock, allied to gabbro; an aggregate of labradorite (feldspar) and hypersthene, of plutonic origin.
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