Definitions for sanidine

sanidine san·i·dine

Spelling: [san-i-deen, -din]
IPA: /ˈsæn ɪˌdin, -dɪn/

Sanidine is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in sanidine (adeiinns).

Definitions for sanidine

noun

  1. a glassy, often transparent variety of orthoclase in which sodium may replace as much as 50 percent of the potassium: forms phenocrysts in some igneous rocks.

Origin of sanidine

1805-15; German Sanidin, equivalent to Greek sanid- (stem of sanís plank) + German -in -ine2

Examples for sanidine

All the upper part of the mountain is composed of a pumiceous tufa, rich in sanidine and of a characteristic greenish colour.

Trachyte from Hungary; felsitic paste with crystals of hornblende and sanidine, and a little magnetite.

They are rich in leucite, but contain also some sanidine and often much nepheline with hauyne or nosean.

sanidine, san′i-din, n. a clear glassy variety of orthoclase.

It is remarkable for the large crystals of sanidine (glassy felspar) which it contains, and has a rude columnar structure.

They are of trachytic appearance, containing phenocysts of sanidine, leucite, augite and biotite.

(c.) Phonolite (Clinkstone) is a trachytic rock, composed essentially of sanidine, nepheline, and augite or hornblende.

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