Definitions for olivines

olivines ol·i·vine

Spelling: [ol-uh-veen, ol-uh-veen]
IPA: /ˈɒl əˌvin, ˌɒl əˈvin/

Olivines is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in olivines (eiilnosv).

Definitions for olivines

noun

  1. Mineralogy. any of a group of magnesium iron silicates, (Mg,Fe) 2 SiO 4 , occurring in olive-green to gray-green masses as an important constituent of basic igneous rocks.

Origin of olivines

1785-95; German Olivin, equivalent to Olive olive + -in -ine2

Examples for olivines

Some of these are composed of trachyte, others of compact blue basalt with olivine.

Grains of magnetite occur in serpentine, as an alteration-product of the olivine.

Both are common alteration products of magnesian silicate minerals such as olivine, pyroxene, and amphibole.

olivine is often present; and when abundant the rock is called "olivine-basalt."

In olivine the black enclosures are not thin laminae, but branching growths resembling pieces of moss.

Below this is a more compact basalt, with crystals of olivine.

Section of olivine crystal from the lava of 1631—imperfectly formed.

Their essential constituents are olivine and purplish augite.

Other minerals which have been found in eclogites are bronzite, olivine and glaucophane.

Ophitic structure is commonest in olivine-dolerites, though the olivine takes no part in it.

Word Value for olivines
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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