melilite
/mel-uh-lahyt/US // ˈmɛl əˌlaɪt //
瓜子石,瓜类,瓜拉尼特,瓜子
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a sorosilicate mineral group, consisting chiefly of sodium, calcium, and aluminum silicates, occurring in igneous rocks.
Examples
Melilite, a lime-alumina-silicate, is characteristic of certain very basic rocks, the melilite-basalts.
Many of them also contain nepheline, sodalite, hauyne and nosean; the much rarer mineral melilite appears also in some examples.
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