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tsingtauite

tsingtauite noun: a porphyritic granite with phenocrysts of orthoclase in a fine-grained groundmass of quartz and alkali feldspar having an evenly granular fabric.

Noun

tsingtauite (uncountable)

  1. A porphyritic granite with phenocrysts of orthoclase in a fine-grained groundmass of quartz and alkali feldspar having an evenly granular fabric.

Origin of tsingtauite

From Tsingtau (“Qingdao”) + -ite.

Questions about tsingtauite

What does tsingtauite mean?
Tsingtauite means a porphyritic granite with phenocrysts of orthoclase in a fine-grained groundmass of quartz and alkali feldspar having an evenly granular fabric.
What part of speech is tsingtauite?
Tsingtauite is a noun.

Words near tsingtauite in the dictionary

  1. tsingala
  2. Tsinghai
  3. Tsinghua
  4. Tsingkiangpu
  5. Tsingtao
  6. tsingtauite
  7. Tsining
  8. Tsinkiang
  9. Tsinnijinnie
  10. tsintaosaurin
  11. tsintaosaurins

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