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Nepheline - What does it mean?

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As a noun nepheline

is a feldspathoid mineral of silica-poor igneous, plutonic and volcanic rocks. Chemically, nepheline is a plagioclase feldspar with insufficient silica to satisfy the chemical bonds. Because of the unfilled bonds, nepheline weathers rapidly and can only be seen as inclusions in freshly broken rock.

nepheline

English

Noun

  • (mineralogy) A feldspathoid mineral of silica-poor igneous, plutonic and volcanic rocks. Chemically, nepheline is a plagioclase feldspar with insufficient silica to satisfy the chemical bonds. Because of the unfilled bonds, nepheline rapidly and can only be seen as inclusions in freshly broken rock.
  • See also

    * ("nepheline" on Wikipedia) * feldspathoid * feldspar

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