adularize

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verb

to gain or be replaced by adularia

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Meanings

verbadularize (third-person singular simple present adularizes, present participle adularizing, simple past and past participle adularized)

present singular third person adularizes · participle present adularizing · participle past adularized · past adularized

  1. geographyto gain or be replaced by adularia

    At some localities the sanidite is adularizing.

    1875, Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. F. V. Hayden, Geologist-in-charge, page 153
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    […] albite, calcite, and pyrite -- are compounds of magnesium, sodium, calcium, and iron, which are the principal elements removed during adularization. The peripheral relation of the chloritized rocks to the adularized rocks […]

    1935, Nevada Bureau of Mines, Bulletin

Origin

From adularia.

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APA

adularize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adularize

MLA

“adularize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adularize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adularize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adularize.

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