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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Diabase (0.00967 detik)
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English → English (gcide) Definition: Diabase Diabase \Di"a*base\, n. [F. diabase, fr. Gr. ? a crossing or passing over, fr. ?; ? + ? to go; -- so called by Brongniart, because it passes over to diorite.] (Min.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone. [1913 Webster]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Diabase Diabase \Di"a*base\, n. [F. diabase, fr. Gr. ? a crossing or passing over, fr. ?; ? + ? to go; -- so called by Brongniart, because it passes over to diorite.] (Min.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone. [1913 Webster]
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