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sideromelane

sideromelane noun: a basaltic glass often found in palagonite tuff.

Noun

sideromelane (plural sideromelanes)

  1. A basaltic glass often found in palagonite tuff.
    • The Korite is a hydrous labradorite; it is in dull brown grains, and is associated with Sideromelane, which has the same composition excepting the absence of water.1854, James Dwight Dana, A system of mineralogy, comprising the most recent discoveries
    • The crystallization sequences observed in the one-atmosphere melting experiments are summarized in Table 16, where they are compared with the crystallization sequence deduced from petrographic examination of nearly holocrystalline rocks and of naturally occurring materials (which contain 80-95%...1978, Rosalind Tuthill Helz, The petrogenesis of the Ice Harbor member, Columbia Plateau, Washington

Forms of sideromelane

pluralsideromelanes

Origin of sideromelane

Borrowed from German Sideromelane, coined by Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen in 1853.

Questions about sideromelane

What does sideromelane mean?
Sideromelane means a basaltic glass often found in palagonite tuff.
What part of speech is sideromelane?
Sideromelane is a noun.
What is the plural of sideromelane?
The plural of sideromelane is sideromelanes.

Words near sideromelane in the dictionary

  1. siderography
  2. siderolite
  3. siderolites
  4. siderolithic
  5. sideromancy
  6. sideromelane
  7. sideromelanes
  8. sideromycin
  9. sideromycins
  10. sideronatrite
  11. sideroom

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