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Meaning of "penninite" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PENNINITE

From German Pennin Pennine (Alps) + -ite1.

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PRONUNCIATION OF PENNINITE

ˈpɛnɪˌnaɪt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PENNINITE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Penninite is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PENNINITE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of penninite in the English dictionary

The definition of penninite in the dictionary is a bluish-green variety of chlorite occurring in the form of thick crystals.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PENNINITE

arsenite · axinite · erinite · gadolinite · ilmenite · Janeite · kaolinite · langbeinite · molybdenite · nephelinite · olivenite · pyroxenite · rabbinite · retinite · selenite · serpentinite · twinight · uraninite · vanadinite · vulpinite

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PENNINITE

penni · pennied · pennies · penniform · penniless · pennilessly · pennilessness · pennill · pennillion · pennine · Pennine Alps · Pennine Chain · Pennine Range · Pennine Way · Pennines · penning · pennon · pennoncel · pennoncelle · pennoned

WORDS THAT END LIKE PENNINITE

bainite · bismuthinite · coffinite · crinite · Darwinite · definite · finite · franklinite · gmelinite · granite · indefinite · infinite · kainite · Leninite · melinite · nonfinite · pinite · succinite · sylvinite · transfinite · Wisconsinite

Synonyms and antonyms of penninite in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «penninite» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PENNINITE

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penninite
1,325 millions of speakers
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penninita
570 millions of speakers
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penninite
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penninite
380 millions of speakers
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penninite
280 millions of speakers
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penninite
278 millions of speakers
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penninite
270 millions of speakers
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penninite
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penninite
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Penninit
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Penn
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penninite
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penninite
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Pennyite
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penninite
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penninite
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पेन्निन्थ
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penninite
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penninite
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penninit
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penninite
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penninite
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penninite
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penninite
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penninite
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penninite
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENNINITE»

Discover the use of penninite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to penninite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rock-Forming Minerals: Orthosilicates, Volume 1A:
The relic cores of clinohumite, partially altered to a yellowish brown fibrous product, are bordered by a narrow zone of optically negative penninite which merges through a thin isotropic zone to optically positive penninite which is surrounded ...
William Alexander Deer, Robert Andrew Howie, J. Zussman, 1982
2
Geology and ore deposits of the Bayard area, Central Mining ...
The hornblende of this rock is rather fresh but in places is slightly replaced by penninite. Patches and flakes of penninite lie here and there in the groundmass, and rarely an isolated flake occurs in the feldspars. Chloritization is still stronger in ...
Samuel Grossman Lasky, New Mexico School of Mines, Socorro. State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico School of Mines. State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 1936
3
Professional Paper
(7) Chlo- rites and related silicates, including serpentine, picrolite, clino- <hlore, penninite, paligorskito, vermiculite, and glauconite (fig. 20). (8) The micas and other minerals characterized by curves with rounded high-temperature shoulders , ...
‎1943
4
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Chlorite is mostly negative penninite. Textures are hypidiomorphic and seriate. Some sections show a vague subparallel arrangement of oligoclase grains suggestive of flowage. A slight tendency to protoclasis is apparent in a few sections.
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1982
5
Geology of Unalaska Island and Adjacent Insular Shelf, ...
... of this is uralitlc fibers), 3-5 percent biotite partially altered to penninite (1-2 percent) and ilmenite and sphene (0.5-1.5 percent) which in turn are altered to leucoxene (<1 percent), 2.4 percent magnetite, and <1 percent apatite (in feldspar).
Harald Drewes, 1961
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Geological Survey Bulletin
Groundmass minerals are quartz, albite, chlorite (penninite), sphene, leucoxene, epidote, white mica, and rare hematite and calcite. The chlorite is responsible for the grayish-green color. Modal analyses of four quartz keratophyre flow rocks ...
‎1977
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Handbook of Plant Nutrition
... 17 Pickeringite MgAl2(SO4)4-22H2O 3 Picromerite See Schoenite - Pimelite See Kerolite - Polyhalite K2Ca2Mg(SO4)4-2H2O 4 Prochlorite See Penninite - Pyrope Mg,Al,(Si04), IX Rabbittite Ca,Mg,(U02)2(CO,)6(OH)4- 1 8H,O 5 Ralstonite ...
Allen V. Barker, David J. Pilbeam, 2006
8
Mineralogy of Arizona
The variety penninite is common in the state. Cochise County: Warren district, as coarse crystals formed during retrograde metamorphism of garnet-epidote tactites, commonly found in the deeper levels of the Cole and Dallas mines; the variety ...
John Williams Anthony, 1995
9
Circular
Hornblende is present as sub- hedral crystals, partly replaced by penninite, epidote, calcite, and magnetite. Eiotite, in irregular grains, is pleochroic; X, pale yellow; Y and Z, dark brown. Sparse accessory minerals include apatite, sphene,  ...
‎1963
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Ganseki Kōbutsu Kōshō Gakkai shi
Titano-penninite (CCH»T jut □ sm i* ffi^ajg^O^^ffi'S/g^^K+O Titano-penninite KLO^-Cfb*£##T<I, #&*&?. Introduction Many ultramafic complexes are distributed in the Mikabu zone in the Samba- gawa metamorphic belt, south-west Japan.
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