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Nepheline vs Agpaite - What's the difference?

nepheline | agpaite |

As nouns the difference between nepheline and agpaite

is that nepheline is nepheline while agpaite is (mineral) any of various peralkaline igneous rocks, typically nepheline syenite or phonolite.

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

    agpaite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mineral) Any of various peralkaline igneous rocks, typically nepheline syenite or phonolite.

    • Related terms

    * agpaitic