Olivine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 118 anagrams from letters in olivine (eiilnov).
1785-95; German Olivin, equivalent to Olive olive + -in -ine2
Ophitic structure is commonest in olivine-dolerites, though the olivine takes no part in it.
Section of olivine crystal from the lava of 1631—imperfectly formed.
In olivine the black enclosures are not thin laminae, but branching growths resembling pieces of moss.
Some of these are composed of trachyte, others of compact blue basalt with olivine.
Both are common alteration products of magnesian silicate minerals such as olivine, pyroxene, and amphibole.
Below this is a more compact basalt, with crystals of olivine.
Their essential constituents are olivine and purplish augite.
olivine is often present; and when abundant the rock is called "olivine-basalt."
Grains of magnetite occur in serpentine, as an alteration-product of the olivine.
Other minerals which have been found in eclogites are bronzite, olivine and glaucophane.