melilite

[ mel-uh-lahyt ]

noun

1. a sorosilicate mineral group, consisting chiefly of sodium, calcium, and aluminum silicates, occurring in igneous rocks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of melilite¹

1790–1800; < New Latin melilithus, equivalent to Greek méli honey + líthos -lite

Example Sentences

Many of us knew that those bombs contained, some of them, more than two hundred pounds of melilite and some of us had witnessed the terrific havoc they wrought when they landed on a building.

From Project Gutenberg

The minerals ha�yne, nosean, sodalite and melilite tend to occur with some frequency in nepheline and leucite-basalts, though rare in ordinary basalts.

From Project Gutenberg

Melilite, a lime-alumina-silicate, is characteristic of certain very basic rocks, the melilite-basalts.

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