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clathrate
A texture found chiefly in leucite rocks, in which the leucite crystals are surrounded by tangential augite crystals in such a way as to suggest a net or a section of a sponge, the felted mass of augite prismoids representing the threads or walls, and the clear, round leucite crystals, the holes.
- Μέρος του λόγου: noun
- Κλάδος/Τομέας: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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