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Aphanite vs Apuanite - What's the difference?

aphanite | apuanite |

As nouns the difference between aphanite and apuanite

is that aphanite is (geology) certain dark igneous rocks having grain so fine that the individual crystals cannot be seen with the naked eye while apuanite is (mineral) a tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black mineral containing antimony, iron, oxygen, and sulfur.

aphanite

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia aphanite)
  • (geology) Certain dark igneous rocks having grain so fine that the individual crystals cannot be seen with the naked eye.

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    apuanite

    English

    Noun

  • (mineral) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black mineral containing antimony, iron, oxygen, and sulfur.

    • References

    * Apuanite in the Mineralogy Database: [http://webmineral.com/data/Apuanite.shtml]