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Pyroxene

Noun CEFR B2
paɪˈɹɒk.siːn

Definitions

Any of a group of crystalline minerals containing silicates of iron, magnesium and calcium.

Equivalents

Españolpiroxeno
Françaispyroxène
DeutschPyroxen
16 more languages
Catalàpiroxè
Ελληνικάπυρόξενος
Bahasa Indonesiapiroksen
Íslenskapýroxen
Italianopirosseno
日本語輝石
Polskipiroksen
Românăpiroxen
Русскийпироксен
Türkçepiroksen

Examples

“By the pathside, there are occasional large boulders that shown black crystals the size of a fingernail; these are pyroxene minerals that had time to crystallise out deep within the chamber of liquid rock – or magmabeneath the volcano.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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