Pyroxene Definition

pī-rŏksēn
pyroxenes
noun
Any of a group of monoclinic or orthorhombic silicate minerals usually containing iron or magnesium but not the hydroxyl radical, and commonly found in igneous rocks.
Webster's New World

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Noun

Singular:
pyroxene
Plural:
pyroxenes

Origin of Pyroxene

  • French pyroxène Greek puro- pyro- Greek xenos stranger (originally viewed as a foreign substance when found in igneous rocks) ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French pyroxène, from pyro- + Ancient Greek ξένος (ksenos, “stranger").

    From Wiktionary

Pyroxene Sentence Examples

  • The boulder is a crystalline rock consisting of pyroxene (chrome-diopside), garnet, and a little olivine, and is studded with diamond crystals; a portion of it is preserved in the British Museum (Natural History).

  • The pyroxenes may be pale green diopside, dark green aegirine-augite, or blackish green aegirine (soda iron pyroxene), and in many cases are complex, the outer portions being aegirine while the centre is diopside.

  • Both Great and Little Ararat consist entirely of volcanic rocks, chiefly andesites and pyroxene andesites, with some obsidian.

  • The rocks are liparites, dacites, hornblende and pyroxene andesites.

  • Quincy granite, a hornblende, pyroxene, bluish or greyish, without mica, was used for the construction of the Bunker Hill monument at Charlestown (in 1826), and of King's Chapel, Boston; and for interior decorations it has found some use, for example in the Philadelphia city buildings.

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