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PRONUNCIATION OF DACITE

dacite  [ˈdeɪsaɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DACITE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dacite 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 DACITE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dacite

Dacite /ˈdeɪsaɪt/ is an igneous, volcanic rock. It has an aphanitic to porphyritic texture and is intermediate in composition between andesite and rhyolite. The relative proportions of feldspars and quartz in dacite, and in many other volcanic rocks, are illustrated in the QAPF diagram. Dacite is also defined by silica and alkali contents in the TAS classification. The word dacite comes from Dacia, a province of the Roman Empire which lay between the Danube River and Carpathian Mountains where the rock was first described.

Definition of dacite in the English dictionary

The definition of dacite in the dictionary is an igneous, volcanic rock characteristically light in colour with relatively high silica content.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DACITE


anthracite
ˈænθrəˌsaɪt
cite
saɪt
excite
ɪkˈsaɪt
eyesight
ˈaɪˌsaɪt
fansite
ˈfænsaɪt
foresight
ˈfɔːˌsaɪt
hindsight
ˈhaɪndˌsaɪt
homesite
ˈhəʊmˌsaɪt
incite
ɪnˈsaɪt
insight
ˈɪnˌsaɪt
lymphocyte
ˈlɪmfəʊˌsaɪt
on-site
ˌɒnˈsaɪt
out-of-sight
ˌaʊtəvˈsaɪt
oversight
ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt
parasite
ˈpærəˌsaɪt
polybasite
ˌpɒlɪˈbeɪsaɪt
recite
rɪˈsaɪt
sight
saɪt
site
saɪt
website
ˈwɛbˌsaɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DACITE

dace
dacha
Dachau
dachshund
Dacia
Dacian
dack
dacker
dacks
dacoit
dacoitage
dacoities
dacoity
dacquoise
Dacron
dactyl
dactylar
dactylic
dactylically
dactyliography

WORDS THAT END LIKE DACITE

analcite
benedicite
boracite
brucite
calcite
chalcocite
chlorocalcite
dulcite
hydrozincite
kamacite
leucite
miscite
omphacite
phenacite
plebiscite
pollucite
scolecite
sericite
variscite
zincite

Synonyms and antonyms of dacite in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dacite» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DACITE

Find out the translation of dacite to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dacite from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dacite» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

英安岩
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dacite
570 millions of speakers

English

dacite
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dacite
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

داسايت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дацит
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dacite
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dacite
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dacite
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dacite
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dacite
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

デイサイト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

석영 안산암
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dacite
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dacite
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டாசைட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डेकाईट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dasit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dacite
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dacite
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дацит
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dacit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

dacite
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dacite
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dacite
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dasitt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dacite

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DACITE»

The term «dacite» is normally little used and occupies the 109.756 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DACITE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DACITE»

Discover the use of dacite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dacite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mountain Meadows dacite: Oligocene intrusive complex that ...
A distinctive suite of dacitic rocks is shown to transect major tectonic boundaries in the San Gabriel Mountains region, thereby constraining the amount of late Cenozoic offset on several strike-slip faults.
Thane Hubert McCulloh, Larry A. Beyer, Ronald W. Morin, 2001
2
Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Hanging wall dacile This type of dacite is not so widespread and occurs locally forming usually steep hills. It has a purple colour at the surface and therefore have been known as the purple dacite. However, the fresh surfaces are usually green ...
A. Piestrzynski, 2001
3
Fractures, Fluid Flow and Mineralization
It occurs as relatively continuous strata to the west of the Obispo Fault, in the central part of the area, overlying the porphyritic dacite (Fig. 2). The medium grained porphyritic andesite is affected by strong propylitic and, close to the veins , ...
Ken McCaffrey, Lidia Lonergan, Jamie Wilkinson, 1999
4
Orogenic Processes in the Alpine Collision Zone: Selected ...
mafic dyke biotite 3.56 mafic dyke, def. whole rock 1.17 mafic dyke, def. biotite 1.79 dacite, de- whole rock 2.05 formed dacite, de- biotite formed mafic dyke whole rock mafic dyke whole rock Table 3. Zircon fission track data obtained on the ...
Nikolaus Froitzheim, Stefan M. Schmid, 2009
5
Origin and evolution of the Santiaguito volcanic dome ...
Rock Type Method Total SiO2 TiO2 Analysis Comments SG-09-06 RcH 1986 - 89 lava flow 14.71785 91.58049 dacite PL10 core SEM 101.75 53.69 0.25 SG-09-06 RcH 1986 - 89 lava flow 14.71785 91.58049 dacite PL11 core SEM 100.98 ...
Jeannie A.J. Scott
6
Geology of the Tonopah Mining District, Nevada
It is adjoined on the west by a long tongue of similar lava, like that surrounding Heller Butte, and the whole is surrounded by the friable Fraction dacite breccia. Farther west, just on the west side of the road, is a similar dome-like hill that rises  ...
Josiah Edward Spurr, 1905
7
United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
mainly of tuff and other fragmental rocks and is cut by many small dacite dikes. Most of the dacite tuff in the area occurs as valley fill or as remnants on valley walls. The surfaces on which the dacite tuffs and rhyo- lite flows rest indicate that  ...
8
Professional paper - United States Geological Survey
overlying schist, and, above all, the occurrence as in hole 5 of the Southwestern Miami group of dacite both in its normal position just under the Gila conglomerate and also at greater depth under what is undoubtedly schist in place, all render ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1918
9
The geology and ore deposits of Goldfield, Nevada
Subsequent petrographic study, however has shown that the vitrophyric dacite has some mineralogical features in common with the intrusive dacite, and chemical analyses prove that the two rocks are nearly identical in chemical composition.
Frederick Leslie Ransome, William Harvey Emmons, George H. Garrey, 1909
10
Orogenic Andesites and Crustal Growth:
SiO2 plot shows that inclusions in 1902 dacite pumice overlap the composition of bulk glass separated from pumice blocks and that together inclusions in the pumice and scoria span a range of composition similar to that of phenocryst- hosted ...
A. Gómez-Tuena, S.M. Straub, G.F. Zellmer, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DACITE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dacite is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Tanzanian Royalty Granted an Environmental Impact Assessment …
... basalts and a felsic volcanic sequence comprising dacite, rhyodacite and crystal volcaniclastics. Mapping and drilling indicate two distinctive, ... «Stockhouse, Jul 15»
2
NW's restless volcano also holds the world's newest glacier
Peter Frenzen, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument scientist, holds a piece of dacite, from the cryptodome magma body during the ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»
3
Golden Arrow Reports additional drilling at Chinchillas Silver …
However, CGA-181 was located 78 metres northwest of hole CGA-170, and drilled in a westerly direction toward the dacite dome where it ... «Junior Mining Network, Jun 15»
4
Summer of Volcanoes: What Is Bimodal Volcanism?
We call lava with 53-67% by weight silica “intermediate” and that covers the range of andesite and dacite lava. Once you're above 67% by ... «Wired, Jun 15»
5
Marlin Gold Closes Acquisition of Commonwealth Silver and Gold …
The mineralized units are in dacite and fine black magnetic andesite, with the latter containing more than 95% of the known mineralization. «Stockhouse, May 15»
6
Remembering Lassen Peak's Last Blast, 100 Years Later
... silicic lava (like andesite, dacite and rhyodacite) or cinder cones of runnier mafic lava (basaltic andesite mainly) erupt across the whole LVC. «Wired, May 15»
7
VIDEO: Hawaii Geothermal Solution Mining Possibility
They pulled 4 and a half pounds of dacite. That is … magma that's in its natural environment that gets pulled up with rapid cooling. It turns to ... «Big Island Video News, May 15»
8
San Marco Resources Expands Three and Identifies Two New …
Anomalous silver, lead, antimony and tellurium is hosted in highly siliceous, vuggy silica altered and oxidized dacite and dacitic tuff. «MarketWatch, May 15»
9
Fire, earth, air and water
The lava layers on Gunung Sinabung are composed of two types of volcanic material, andesite and dacite – the former named after the Andean ... «The Borneo Post, Mar 15»
10
Golden Arrow Reports Additional Drill Results, Discovers New Area …
The dacite body was intercepted starting at 489 meters. In between the deep mantos and dacite there are several one metre intervals of ... «MarketWatch, Mar 15»

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