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omphacite

[ om-fuh-sahyt ]

noun

, Mineralogy.
  1. a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of omphacite1

1820–30; < German Omphazit < Greek omphakī́tēs green stone, equivalent to omphak- (stem of ómphax ) unripe grape + -ītēs -ite 1
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Example Sentences

Typically they consist of pale green or nearly colourless augite (omphacite), green hornblende and pink garnet.

With omphacite and smaragdite, garnet forms the peculiar rock called eclogite.

Omphacite, om′fa-sīt, n. a grass-green granular variety of pyroxene, one of the constituents of eclogite.

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