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Fayalite
Fay′al-ite
(fā′al-īt)
, Noun.
[So called from the island
Fayal
.] (Min.)
A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.
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fayalite
fayalite
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Fayalite
Noun
fayalite (countable and uncountable, plural fayalites)
- (mineralogy) Yellow, olive green, brown or black mineral with orthorhombic crystals of the olivine group, Fe2SiO4.
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References
- ↑ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997