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pegmatite
noun
a light-colored, coarsegrained, intrusive igneous rock, usually granitic, containing large crystals of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and sometimes rare minerals: typically found in fissures of other igneous rocks
Related Forms:
- pegmatitic adjective
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