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omphacite
[ om-fuh-sahyt ]
noun
Mineralogy.
- a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of omphacite1
1820鈥30; < German Omphazit < Greek 辞尘辫丑补办墨虂迟脓蝉 green stone, equivalent to omphak- (stem of 贸尘辫丑补虫 ) unripe grape + -墨迟脓蝉 -ite 1
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Omphacite, om鈥瞗a-s墨t, n. a grass-green granular variety of pyroxene, one of the constituents of eclogite.鈥攁dj.
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With omphacite and smaragdite, garnet forms the peculiar rock called eclogite.
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