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单词 diorite
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dioriten.

Brit. /ˈdʌɪərʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈdaɪəˌraɪt/
Etymology: < French diorite (Haüy), irregularly < διορίζειν to distinguish + -ite suffix1.
Mineralogy.
A variety of greenstone n., consisting of hornblende combined with a triclinic feldspar (albite or oligoclase).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > plutonic rocks > greenstone > varieties of
mulatto1816
hornblende rock1821
diorite1826
hypersthene rock1838
hypersthenite1849
norite1853
aphanite1863
hyperite1863
1826 W. Phillips Outl. Mineral. & Geol. (ed. 4) 151 The Diabase, Diorite, and Amphibolite of French authors, seems to include both Greenstone and Hornblende rock.
1858 A. Geikie Story of Boulder xii. 239 Hornblendic green-stones, or diorites.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times (1869) vi. 182 The axe was pre-eminently the implement of antiquity... Serpentine and diorite were the principal materials.
attributive.1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xxii. 709 The magnificent diorite statue of Shafra, the builder of the Second Pyramid.1890 Goldfields of Victoria 17 The stone..running through a diorite dyke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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