Meaning of foyalite | Babel Free

Definitions

A fine-grained Plutonic syenite made up of orthoclase, nepheline, hornblende, and accessory mica, sodalite, zircon, noselite, and pyroxene.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“[…] while foyalite is an almost pure iron-chrysolite.”

“The free energy remains negative throughout the whole temperature range, indicating that the association forstorite + ilmenite is thermodynamically more stable than foyalite + geikielite.”

“Thin section photograph of foyalite (peralkaline phonolite) from Sevrano ki Dhani.”

CEFR level