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kelyphites

kelyphites is the plural of kelyphite.

Meaning of kelyphite

Noun

kelyphite (plural kelyphites)

  1. A substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.
    • Relationships shown in Fig. 3, B and C demonstrate that formation of the symplectite predated development of glassy kelyphite veins which formed by decompression melting during rapid ascent of the host alnöite.2000 May 19, Kenneth D. Collerson with et al., “Rocks from the Mantle Transition Zone: Majorite-Bearing Xenoliths from Malaita, Southwest Pacific”, in Science, volume 288, number 5469, →DOI, →ISSN...

Questions about kelyphites

What is kelyphites the plural of?
Kelyphites is the plural of kelyphite.

Words near kelyphites in the dictionary

  1. Kelvinside
  2. Kelvinverse
  3. kelyanite
  4. Kelynack
  5. kelyphite
  6. kelyphites
  7. KEM
  8. Kemal
  9. Kemalism
  10. Kemalist
  11. Kemalists

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