Crossword-Solution: NEPHELINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nepheline | n. | Alt. of Nephelite |
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Walk furtively (up to someone)
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Hint 2 anagram
DESLI
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Both these rocks are composed of triclinic feldspar and augite with more or less olivine, magnetic or titaniferous oxide of iron, and usually a little nepheline, leucite, and apatite; basalt usually contains considerably more olivine than melaphyre, but chemically they are closely allied, although the melaphyres usually contain more silica and alumina, with less oxides of iron, lime, and magnesia, than the basalts.
Notwithstanding the great number of blocks, which we stopped to break, to the great regret of our guides, we could discover neither nepheline, leucite,* (* Amphigene.--Hauy.) nor feldspar.
Cordier found at Teneriffe xeolite in an amygdaloid which covers the basalts of La Punta di Naga.) In like manner the lava of Scala, with which the city of Naples is paved, contains a close mixture of basalt, nepheline, and leucite.
But in general the masses of known primitive rocks, (I mean those which perfectly resemble our granites, our gneiss, and our mica-slates) are very rare in lavas; the substances we commonly denote by the name of granite, thrown out by Vesuvius, are mixtures of nepheline, mica, and pyroxene.
Anorthite ([.Ca][.Mg][.Na][.K])^{3}[...Si] + 3([...Al=][...Fe=])[...Si] Nepheline ([.Na][.K][.Ca])^{2}[...Si] + 2[...Al=][...Si] Obsidian [...Si],[...Al=],[...Fe=],[.Fe],[.Ca][.Na][.K] Int.