Orthoclase is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 1152 anagrams from letters in orthoclase (acehloorst).
1840-50; ortho- + -clase Greek klásis cleavage, breaking
The felspar ranges from bytownite to oligoclase, being usually a variety of labradorite; orthoclase is scarce.
Amelia Court House, Virginia, is another locality whence come pieces either of orthoclase or oligoclase exhibiting this property.
If the initial composition of the magma is represented by a point between the two eutectic points, orthoclase will separate first.
orthoclase and microcline feldspar are used in the manufacture of porcelain and chinaware.
The china-clay rocks of Cornwall and Devon are granites in which the orthoclase has become kaolinized.
Examples of substances exhibiting these three kinds of dispersion are borax, orthoclase and gypsum respectively.
It often occurs as a constituent of granite, not unfrequently being associated in the same rock with pink felspar or orthoclase.
The turbidity of orthoclase is usually due to partial kaolinization.
In syenite and greenstone it occurs more commonly than orthoclase.
This curve would represent the conditions under which orthoclase is in equilibrium with the molten magma.
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