Definitions for hornblende

hornblende horn·blende

Spelling: [hawrn-blend]
IPA: /ˈhɔrnˌblɛnd/

Hornblende is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 355 anagrams from letters in hornblende (bdeehlnnor).

Definitions for hornblende

noun

  1. a dark-green to black mineral of the amphibole group, calcium magnesium iron and hydroxyl aluminosilicate.

Origin of hornblende

From German, dating back to 1760-70; See origin at horn, blende

Examples for hornblende

White crystals of felspar in a dark base of hornblende and felspar.

The magnetic iron ore is associated with hornblende and quartzite.

Diorite is a crystalline aggregate of a soda-felspar and hornblende.

The Serpentine rock streaked with hornblende, felspar, slate and green-stone, shows changing colours like a pigeon's breast.

Brown hornblende, like that of the camptonites, occurs in many of them.

The minerals at contact are quartz, biotite, magnetite and hornblende.

Garnets of inferior quality are common in the gneiss, but finer ones are found in the hornblende rocks.

There were, also, some striking water-worn masses of granitical and hornblende porphyry.

hornblende, like augite, also includes a great many minerals.

The true asbestos, however, he says, is a fibrous variety of tremolite or hornblende.

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