Crossword-Solution: AMPHIBOLE
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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
One who, or that which, eats.
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Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc.
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.
Amphibole is a general name for all the different varieties of Hornblende, Actinolite, Tremolite, etc., while Pyroxene includes Augite, Diallage, Malacolite, Sahlite, etc.
But many do not: amphibole, copper (the most common pure metal in rocks), feldspar, galena, gypsum, hornblende, mica, quartz.
These lavas, destitute of amphibole and mica, are of a blackish brown, often varying to the deepest olive green.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1949).