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Omphacite

OM'PHACITE

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Noun.
A mineral of a pale leek green color, massive or disseminated, and in narrow radiated concretions.

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omphacite

omphacite

English

Noun

omphacite (usually uncountable, plural omphacites)

  1. (mineralogy) Any of a range of green, monoclinic pyroxene minerals found in eclogites and similar rocks; they are solid solutions of jadeite and diopside.

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