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Definition of Felspars
1. felspar [n] - See also: felspar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Felspars
Literary usage of Felspars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1905)
"felspars also show a tendency to break up at their edges into a mosaic. It is
evident that the rectangularly bounded aggregates are really reconstructed ..."
2. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips (1885)
"felspars are the most abundant minerals in igneous rocks. ... All felspars consist
chemically of silicates of alumina combined with some other silicate, ..."
3. Report of Progress for by Geological Survey of Canada (1857)
"In like manner the constant association of a small amount of potash with the soda
of these felspars, lead us to infer the admixture of a potash-albite, ..."
4. Aids in Practical Geology by Grenville Arthur James Cole (1906)
"See notes on Garnet and Spinel. INDEX TO METALLIC COMPOUNDS. CHAPTER VIII.
QUANTITATIVE FLAME-REACTIONS OF THE felspars AND THEIR ALLIES. PROF. ..."
5. Rocks Classified and Described: A Treatise on Lithology by Bernhard von Cotta (1866)
"All felspars have a great tendency to form twin crystals, and this duplication
occurs in them in a very marked manner, and according to six different laws. ..."
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