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HIPERSTENA [1 record]

Record 1 2011-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
DEF

A grayish, greenish, black, or brown mineral of the orthopyroxene group which is isomorphous with enstatite and is found as an essential constituent of many igneous rocks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
DEF

Minéral translucide à presque opaque, d'éclat légèrement perlé sur les faces de clivage, de couleur noir grisâtre, noir verdâtre à vert brunâtre.

CONT

Les membres les plus importants de [la série des pyroxènes orthorhombiques] sont : l'enstatite [...], la bronzite [...] et l'hypersthène [...]

OBS

Étymologie : du grec uper, «au-dessus», et sthenos, «force». Allusion à la dureté supérieure de ce minéral par rapport aux autres pyroxènes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mineralogía
DEF

Silicato de hierro y de magnesio [...], que cristaliza en el sistema rómbico, se encuentra en forma de cristales de brillo metálico, de color pardo violáceo, que forman parte de los gabros y de las andesitas.

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