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omphacite
[ om-fuh-sahyt ]
noun
Mineralogy.
- a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of omphacite1
1820–30; < German Omphazit < Greek dzī́ŧ green stone, equivalent to omphak- (stem of ó ) unripe grape + -īŧ -ite 1
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Omphacite, om′fa-sīt, n. a grass-green granular variety of pyroxene, one of the constituents of eclogite.—adj.
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With omphacite and smaragdite, garnet forms the peculiar rock called eclogite.
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