Definitions for omphacite

omphacite om·pha·cite

Spelling: [om-fuh-sahyt]
IPA: /ˈɒm fəˌsaɪt/

Omphacite is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 558 anagrams from letters in omphacite (acehimopt).

Definitions for omphacite

noun

  1. a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.

Origin of omphacite

1820-30; German Omphazit Greek omphakī́tēs green stone, equivalent to omphak- (stem of ómphax) unripe grape + -ītēs -ite1

Examples for omphacite

With omphacite and smaragdite, garnet forms the peculiar rock called eclogite.

Typically they consist of pale green or nearly colourless augite (omphacite), green hornblende and pink garnet.

omphacite, om′fa-sīt, n. a grass-green granular variety of pyroxene, one of the constituents of eclogite.

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