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Augite  n.  A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; also used instead of the general term pyroxene.





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... those composed of a finely granular tissue of olivine, augite, and labradorite blended together* (as the meteoric stone found at Juvenas, in the Department de l'Ardche, which resembled dolorite), are the only ones, as Gustav Rose has remarked, which have ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt


Words linked to "Augite" :   mineral, augitic


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