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fenite

fenite noun: a metasomatic rock often containing carbonatite intrusions.

Noun

fenite (countable and uncountable, plural fenites)

  1. A metasomatic rock often containing carbonatite intrusions
    • There Strauss & Truter record a gradual transition from the white umptekite (fenite) to a pulaskitic rock with nepheline.1956, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 210

Forms of fenite

pluralfenites

Words formed from fenite

Questions about fenite

What does fenite mean?
Fenite means a metasomatic rock often containing carbonatite intrusions.
What part of speech is fenite?
Fenite is a noun.
What is the plural of fenite?
The plural of fenite is fenites.

Words near fenite in the dictionary

  1. fenipentol
  2. fenis
  3. Feniscowles
  4. fenisorex
  5. Fenit
  6. fenite
  7. fenites
  8. fenitic
  9. fenitisation
  10. fenitise
  11. fenitised

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