PYROXENE

Pyroxene

The pyroxenes are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks. They share a common structure consisting of single chains of silica tetrahedra and they crystallize in the monoclinic and orthorhombic systems. Pyroxenes have the general formula XY2O6 (where X represents calcium, sodium, iron+2 and magnesium and more rarely zinc, manganese and lithium and

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pyroxene

Noun

  1. Any of a group of crystalline minerals containing silicates of iron, magnesium and calcium.


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