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melilite

[ mel-uh-lahyt ]

noun

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


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of melilite1

1790–1800; < New Latin melilithus, equivalent to Greek ³¾Ã©±ô¾± honey + ±ôí³Ù³ó´Ç²õ -lite
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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.

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

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

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