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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD IDOCRASE

From French, from Greek eidos form + krasis a mingling.
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PRONUNCIATION OF IDOCRASE

idocrase  [ˈaɪdəˌkreɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IDOCRASE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Idocrase 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 IDOCRASE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

idocrase

Vesuvianite

Vesuvianite, also known as idocrase, is a green, brown, yellow, or blue silicate mineral. Vesuvianite occurs as tetragonal crystals in skarn deposits and limestones that have been subjected to contact metamorphism. It was first discovered within included blocks or adjacent to lavas on Mount Vesuvius, hence its name. A bluish variety known as cyprine has been reported from Franklin, New Jersey and other locations; the blue is due to impurities of copper. Californite is a name sometimes used for jade-like vesuvianite, also known as California-, American- or Vesuvianite-jade. Xanthite is a manganese rich variety. Wiluite is an optically positive variety from Wilui, Siberia. Idocrase is an older synonym sometimes used for gemstone-quality vesuvianite. Tumbled vesuvianite pebble...

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IDOCRASE


brace
breɪs
disgrace
dɪsˈɡreɪs
embrace
ɪmˈbreɪs
grace
ɡreɪs
interrace
ˌɪntəˈreɪs
landrace
ˈlændˌreɪs
Olivares
ˌəʊlɪˈvɑːreɪs
race
reɪs
res
reɪs
retrace
rɪˈtreɪs
Samothrace
ˈsæməˌθreɪs
Thrace
θreɪs
trace
treɪs
transferase
ˈtrænsfəˌreɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IDOCRASE

idol
idolater
idolatress
idolatrise
idolatriser
idolatrize
idolatrizer
idolatrous
idolatrously
idolatrousness
idolatry
idolisation
idoliser
idolism
idolist
idolization
idolize
idolizer
idolum

WORDS THAT END LIKE IDOCRASE

carbonic anhydrase
epimerase
erase
esterase
gyrase
luciferase
noun phrase
paraphrase
phrase
polymerase
prase
prepositional phrase
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rephrase
sucrase
telomerase
to coin a phrase
topoisomerase
turn of phrase
verb phrase

Synonyms and antonyms of idocrase in the English dictionary of synonyms

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符山石
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idocrase
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ar

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idocrase
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везувиан
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idocrase
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idocrase
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idocrase
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Idocrase
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Idokras
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idocrase
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idocrase
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Idocrase
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idocrase
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idocrase
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आयडोक्रेस
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İdokraz
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idocrase
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idocrase
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везувіан
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idocrase
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idocrase
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idocrase
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idocrase
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Trends of use of idocrase

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IDOCRASE»

The term «idocrase» is normally little used and occupies the 122.000 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IDOCRASE» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IDOCRASE»

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Rock-Forming Minerals: Orthosilicates, Volume 1A:
Idocrase (vesuvianite) -a 250-year puzzle. Min. Rec.,4, 164-174. Arem J. E. and Burnham, W. C, 1969. Structural variations in idocrase. Amer. Min., 54, 1546- 1550. Barth, T. F. W., 1927. Die pegmatitgange der kaledonischen Intrusivgesteine ...
William Alexander Deer, Robert Andrew Howie, J. Zussman, 1982
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
Paragenetic data from the few deposits studied in detail indicate that deposition of helvite is possible through this entire range of temperature. Idocrase commonly is associated with helvite in beryllium-bearing tactites. (See table 13; also tables  ...
‎1959
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Geological Survey professional paper
The light layers may be mostly marble, although usually they are composed of mixtures of calcite-wollastonite, wollastonite-diopsidic pyroxene, wollastonite- diopsidic pyroxene-g rossularite, and rarely, wollastonite-diopsidic pyroxene- idocrase ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), Geological Survey (U.S.). Geographic Names Information Management, 1962
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An Elementary Treatise of Mineralogy and Geology
I \ IDOCRASE. . 375 Their form is a four-sided rectangular prism, whose lateral edges are 'sometimes truncated by a plane, which forms with each contiguous face an angle of 135°. Sometimes the lateral edges are replaced by two or three  ...
Parker Cleveland, 1822
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Ore-bearing Granite Systems: Petrogenesis and Mineralizing ...
Idocrase skarn & hornfels U Pyx—ido hfls 8 skarn Equigranular granite i) E] Seriate granite Porphyritic granite [U1] York Slate Figure 4. Geologic map of the Ear Mountain pluton and associated rocks. Compiled from Bond (1983), Swanson and ...
Holly J. Stein, Judith L. Hannah, 1990
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United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
Thermal metamorphism of nonmagnesian slightly impure limestone is shown by an outcrop of banded idocrase-wollastonite marble adjoining the granite of Jabal al Munif, Al 'Anad. A specimen of this rock (A18) shows 2-mm-thick bands of ...
‎1966
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An elementary treatise on mineralogy and geology: designed ...
In the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol, massive Idocrase forms beds several feet thick , associated with calcareous spar, in primitive greenstone. (Bsoccm.)Sear Monte liosa, Idocrase occurs in veins, traversing gneiss ; — and at San Lorenzo, ...
Parker Cleaveland, 1822
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Abstracts of papers submitted for six meetings with which ...
Synthesis and Composition of Idocrase in the System CaO-MgO-A1203-8i02- H20 WALTER, LOUIS S., Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Synthetic idocrase was produced at various temperatures and pressures of 1—5 kb in runs in ...
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An Elementary Introduction to the knowledge of Mineralogy: ...
Idocrase H. La Vesuvienne Br. . Idocrase Bt. Vesuvian J. Idocrase occurs massive, more often in crystals, either solitary or in groups. The general form* of the crystals is a. quadrangular prism, which sometimes is terminated by planes, and the ...
William PHILLIPS (F.L.S., etc.), 1823
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A Descriptive Catalogue of a New Collection of Minerals in ...
VESUVIAN, OR IDOCRASE OF HAUY. 66. Idocrase, or Vesuvian, of a yellowish- green colour, crystallized in rectangular four-sided prisms, truncated lateral edges, accompanied by yellowish-green mica, common garnet, and pearl-grey glassy ...
Carl Ludwig Giesecke, 1832

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IDOCRASE»

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Young artists at work
... Diana Pirir from Mountain View High School ("Antigua Guatemala") and Daniel Saguibo from Timpview High School ("Amethyst Idocrase"). «Daily Herald, Feb 14»
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Taormina finishes like lightning
He won the first, the Burp Eat Drink (1250m), with Idocrase ($11), which finished fast down the outside to score by two lengths. Lee completed ... «Mackay Daily Mercury, Jun 11»

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