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Nephelite vs Nepheline - What's the difference?

nephelite | nepheline |

As nouns the difference between nephelite and nepheline

is that nephelite is the mineral nepheline while nepheline is nepheline.

nephelite

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The mineral nepheline.

    • 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