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orthopyroxine

orthopyroxine is the misspelling of orthopyroxene.

Meaning of orthopyroxene

Noun

orthopyroxene (plural orthopyroxenes)

  1. Any pyroxene that forms orthorhombic crystals.
    • Biotite from lava flows is invariably rimmed or totally replaced by an exceedingly fine-grained, almost isotropic intergrowth of K-feldspar, orthopyroxene, cordierite and ilmenite, probably as a result of dehydration of the magma on eruption. Cordierite and orthopyroxene (5% each) occur as euhedral...1981 November 10, D. Wyborn, B. W. Chappell, R. M. Johnston, “Three S‐Type Volcanic Suites from the Lachlan Fold Belt, Southeast Australia”, in Journal of Geophysical Research, volume 86, number B11...

Questions about orthopyroxine

What is orthopyroxine the misspelling of?
Orthopyroxine is the misspelling of orthopyroxene.

Words near orthopyroxine in the dictionary

  1. orthoptopically
  2. orthopyroxene
  3. orthopyroxenes
  4. orthopyroxenite
  5. orthopyroxenites
  6. orthopyroxine
  7. orthopædia
  8. orthopædic
  9. orthopædical
  10. orthopædically
  11. orthopædics

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