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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ADULARIA

Via Italian from French adulaire, after Adula, a group of mountains in Switzerland.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ADULARIA

adularia  [ˌædjʊˈlɛərɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADULARIA

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adularia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ADULARIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

adularia

Orthoclase

Orthoclase is an important tectosilicate mineral which forms igneous rock. The name is from the Greek for "straight fracture," because its two cleavage planes are at right angles to each other. Alternate names are alkali feldspar, potassium feldspar and K-feldspar. The gem known as moonstone is largely composed of orthoclase.

Definition of adularia in the English dictionary

The definition of adularia in the dictionary is a white or colourless glassy variety of orthoclase in the form of prismatic crystals. It occurs in metamorphic rocks and is a minor gemstone. Formula: KAlSi3O8.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADULARIA


alfilaria
ˌælfɪˈlɛərɪə
alfileria
ˌælfɪˈlɛərɪə
area
ˈɛərɪə
armillaria
ˌɑːmɪˈlɛərɪə
Bavaria
bəˈvɛərɪə
Bulgaria
bʌlˈɡɛərɪə
calceolaria
ˌkælsɪəˈlɛərɪə
crotalaria
ˌkrɒtəˈlɛərɪə
filaria
fɪˈlɛərɪə
honoraria
ˌɒnəˈrɛərɪə
malaria
məˈlɛərɪə
microfilaria
ˌmaɪkrəʊfɪˈlɛərɪə
militaria
ˌmɪlɪˈtɛərɪə
pedicellaria
ˌpɛdɪsəˈlɛərɪə
sanitaria
ˌsænɪˈtɛərɪə
scrophularia
ˌskrɒfjʊˈlɛərɪə
solaria
səʊˈlɛərɪə
talaria
təˈlɛərɪə
varia
ˈvɛərɪə
vibracularia
vaɪˌbrækjʊˈlɛərɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADULARIA

adularescence
adularescent
adulate
adulation
adulator
adulatory
Adullamite
adult
adult education
adult education centre
Adult Training Centre
adulterant
adulterate
adulteration
adulterator
adulterer
adulteress
adulteries
adulterine
adulterise

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADULARIA

antimalaria
aquaria
aria
Ave Maria
Black Maria
Carpentaria
fritillaria
Gran Canaria
Gulf of Carpentaria
luminaria
maria
Samaria
Santa Maria
saponaria
sharia
the Santa Maria
urticaria
utricularia
velaria
Zaria

Synonyms and antonyms of adularia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «adularia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADULARIA

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The translations of adularia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adularia» in English.

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冰长石
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adularia
570 millions of speakers

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adularia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

adularia
380 millions of speakers
ar

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adularia
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

адуляр
278 millions of speakers

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adularia
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Translator English - Bengali

adularia
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adularia
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Adularia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Adular
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Translator English - Japanese

adularia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

adularia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adularia
85 millions of speakers
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adularia
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Translator English - Tamil

adularia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अदुलिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

adularya
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

adularia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

adularia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

адуляр
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adularia
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

adularia
15 millions of speakers
af

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adularia
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

adularia
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

adularia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adularia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADULARIA»

The term «adularia» is normally little used and occupies the 124.931 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADULARIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adularia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADULARIA»

Discover the use of adularia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adularia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rock-forming Minerals
Adularia is present in late hydrothermal assemblages in rare-element granitic pegmatites as well as more primitive and less fractionated granitic pegmatites. Morphologically, adularia occurs predominantly with the Felsobanya-Maderaner  ...
William Alexander Deer, Robert Andrew Howie, J. Zussman, 2001
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The Book of Stones: Who They Are and What They Teach
key words Tranquillity, inward journeying, stone of the Goddess, receiving inner guidance element Wind and Water chakras Third Eye (6th), Throat (5th), Heart ( 4th), Sexual/Creative (2nd) A dularia (aka Adularia Moonstone) is a potassium ...
Robert Simmons, Naisha Ahsian, 2007
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Advances in 40Ar/39Ar Dating: From Archaeology to Planetary ...
The different types of adularia are shown, and some related values of atmospheric contamination are reported. (b) The age probability diagram for BO19-K4 breccia. (c) Interpretations in the inverse isochron plot. Grey domains are reported ...
F. Jourdan, D.F. Mark, C. Verati, 2014
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Fractures, Fluid Flow and Mineralization
Discussion All the main features of the Marmato gold deposits, in particular the association with volcanic-subvolcanic structures, the abundance of adularia and sericite, the occurrence of open space-filling vein textures and the fluid inclusion  ...
Ken McCaffrey, Lidia Lonergan, Jamie Wilkinson, 1999
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Geodynamics and Ore Deposit Evolution in Europe
Apart from its unusual structural setting and lack of obvious relationships with the local magmatism, the sediment-hosted mineralization exhibits many features that are typical of the adularia class of epithermal deposits, including banded veins ...
D. Blundell, N. Arndt, P.R. Cobbold, 2006
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
POTASSIUM FELDSPAR Adularia (hydrothermal potassium feldspar) (fig. 5) in drill core Y-6 was identified as cavity and fracture fillings between 23.2 and 30.9 m, a zone where temperatures measured during drilling were about 60° to 80°C ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1984
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Professional Paper - United States Geological Survey
Adularia is a pure potassium feldspar which occurs in some mineral veins." The Cripple Creek deposits contain a considerable amount of this mineral, both as fissure-filling and more prominently as a metasomatic product. b It nearly always  ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1906
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Geology of the Tonopah Mining District, Nevada
Analysis showed that this mineral had the composition of adularia mixed with a little quartz. The feldspar crystals were sometimes of the ordinary orthoclase habit , and sometimes of the adularia habit." The same investigators obtained ...
Josiah Edward Spurr, 1905
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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
This mixture of roscoelite and pyrite is surrounded and invaded by a later- deposited mass of fine granular quartz, with some adularia in the rhombic crystals which are so characteristic in the variety of tins mineral called valencianite.
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The Geology and Tectonic Settings of China's Mineral Deposits
Stage 2 is characterized by white massive quartz veins, stockwork veins, and hydrothermal breccia, containing variable amounts of quartz, adularia and sericite. Cryptocrystalline chalcedonic quartz is present near the surface, whereas ...
Franco Pirajno, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADULARIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adularia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Redstar Gold Reports Ultra High Grade Gold Intersections at the …
... vein system (e.g. cockade-colloform textured quartz-adularia-carbonate veins with trace disseminated sulphides) at expected target depths. «Baystreet.ca, Jun 15»
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Miranda and Prism Discover Widespread Gold Mineralisation at …
The veins display two stages of abundant adularia. Bladed quartz after calcite is observed on artisan mine dumps. Adularia and bladed quartz ... «Baystreet.ca, Jun 15»
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RCCL: viaggio nella 'nuova' Allure of the Seas
... Claudia Vittone, Sahara Blu Viaggi; Roberto Stella, Adularia Viaggi; Barbara Manzotti, Roxteam; Cinzia Bruno, Cruiseiro do Sul; Fabio Russo ... «L'Agenzia di Viaggi, Jun 15»
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Cypress Development to Acquire 100% of Frost Gold Project in …
... high grade gold mineralization hosted in both low sulfidation (quartz-adularia) veins and within pervasively altered and brecciated sandstone ... «MarketWatch, May 15»
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Corvus Gold Initiates 2015 Drilling Program, North Bullfrog Project …
Both drilling and resistivity geophysical data indicate that there is a deep rooted structural zone of highly resistive silica-adularia alteration ... «Junior Mining Network, Apr 15»
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Sailing Italian Style
Dining: Menus in the larger dining rooms — Fiorentino, Adularia and the open-seating Corona Blu restaurant — are heavy on Italian classics, ... «TravelPulse, Mar 15»
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TSX Venture Market Leader & Nevada Gold Explorer
Gold and silver mineralization at Golden Arrow includes mineral zones typical of both low-sulphidation quartz-adularia veins and high-sulphidation hot-spring ... «Gold Investing News, Mar 15»
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Cruising With COSTA DIADEMA, Part Two
Although it offers similar decor and an identical menu to the double deck Ristorante Fiorentino, the centrally located Ristorante Adularia lacks ... «Maritime Matters, Mar 15»
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Golden Queen Mining, History in the Making
Gold and silver mineralization occurs in low sulfidation, quartz adularia veins and stockworks that strike northwest. At least 14 separate veins ... «Construction Equipment Guide, Mar 15»
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Great Deposits of the World - Hishikari, Japan.
The veins are banded quartz-adularia ( a low temperature pink feldspar mineral), and quartz-clay with extremely high grade >1000 g/t Gold ... «Geology for Investors, Mar 15»

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