fenite

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noun

A metasomatic rock often containing carbonatite intrusions

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Meanings

nounfenite (countable and uncountable, plural fenites)

plural fenites

  1. countableuncountablechemistryA metasomatic rock often containing carbonatite intrusions

    There Strauss & Truter record a gradual transition from the white umptekite (fenite) to a pulaskitic rock with nepheline.

    1956, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 210
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