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Augite

noun
1.
Dark-green to black glassy mineral of the pyroxene group containing large amounts of aluminum and iron and magnesium.





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... will be called generically, are usually composed of plagioclase feldspar, and diallage or augite; additional and rarer minerals are quartz, olivine, hypersthene, magnetite, ilmenite, and hornblende. Their structure is ophitic in the finer varieties, and to some extent in the coarser kinds as well. They are holocrystalline in form and true glassy bases are rare, rendering the term ...
— History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia • James W. Head


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