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Crossword-Solution: AMPHIBOLE 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

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Amphibole n. A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in
color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also
massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies
from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of
magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common
varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the
last name being also used as a general term for the whole species).
Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite,
diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.

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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
Amphibole and Pyroxene Group.—The minerals included in the table under the Amphibole and Pyroxene Group differ somewhat in their crystallisation form, though they all belong to the monoclinic system.
The Student’s Elements of Geology Sir Charles Lyell 2001
Amphibole is a general name for all the different varieties of Hornblende, Actinolite, Tremolite, etc., while Pyroxene includes Augite, Diallage, Malacolite, Sahlite, etc.
The Student’s Elements of Geology Sir Charles Lyell 2001
But many do not: amphibole, copper (the most common pure metal in rocks), feldspar, galena, gypsum, hornblende, mica, quartz.
Let's collect rocks & shells Shell Oil Company 2003
These lavas, destitute of amphibole and mica, are of a blackish brown, often varying to the deepest olive green.
Equinoctial Regions of America Alexander von Humboldt 2004
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