Noun:

आग्‍नेय शिला का अंश, कैल्शियम और मैग्‍नेशियम के सैकत से निर्मित खनिज, पाइरॉक्‍सीन,

pyroxenes's Usage Examples:

We are particularly interested in the sources of basaltic rocks and greenstones, including serpentine, nephrites and sodic pyroxenes (jades).

We are particularly interested in the sources of basaltic rocks and greenstones, including serpentine, nephrites and sodic pyroxenes (jades ).

secondary product of olivine and certain pyroxenes.

The pyroxenes may be pale green diopside, dark green aegirine-augite, or blackish green aegirine (soda iron pyroxene), and in many cases are complex, the outer portions being aegirine while the centre is diopside.

Calcium silicate is also present in the minerals: olivine, pyroxenes, amphiboles, epidote, felspars, zeolites, scapolites (qq.v.).

Again, the pyroxenes, RS103 (R=Fe, Mg, Mn, 'c.), assume the forms (I) monoclinic, sometimes twinned so as to become pseudo-rhombic; (2) rhombic, resulting from the pseudo-rhombic structure of (I) becoming ultramicroscopic; and (3) triclinic, distinctly different from (I) and (2); (I) and (2) are polysymmetric modifications, while (3) and the pair (I) and (2) are polymorphs.

Synonyms:

nephelinite, basalt, mineral,

Antonyms:

organic,