"Pegmatite" is a word in ENGLISH
More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein
material in other rocks.
Graphic granite. See under Granite.
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A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is …
Read the complete definitionbantílis n hard, fine-grained stone with a smooth surface, gray in color and spots of white. Bantílis kag kasingkásing, You …
Read the complete definitionTo dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite.
Read the complete definitionA soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It …
Read the complete definitionImperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.
Read the complete definitionOne of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, …
Read the complete definitionRelated to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.
Read the complete definitionA crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in …
Read the complete definitionResembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and …
Read the complete definitionDecomposed granite.
Read the complete definitionA crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It …
Read the complete definitionNew Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.
Read the complete definitionConsisting of granite; as, granitic mountains.
Read the complete definitionLike granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.
Read the complete definitionGranitic.
Read the complete definitionThe act or the process of forming into granite.
Read the complete definitionResembling granite in structure or shape.
Read the complete definitionResembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.
Read the complete definitionA decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
Read the complete definitionCompletely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
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