a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite
Word origin
[1820–30; ‹ G Omphazit ‹ Gk omphaki᷇tēs green stone, equiv. to omphak- (s. of ómphax) unripe grape + -ītēs-ite1]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acetate, boomerang, insider, myth, tetrapod-ite is a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader,doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite; Israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, esp. salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body (somite)
Examples of 'omphacite' in a sentence
omphacite
These eclogites are characterized by the garnet + omphacite + rutile + phengite + quartz assemblages.
Yu-Xiu Zhang, Xin Jin, Kai-Jun Zhang, Wei-Dong Sun, Jian-Ming Liu, Xiao-Yao Zhou,Li-Long Yan 2018, 'Newly discovered Late Triassic Baqing eclogite in central Tibet indicates an anticlockwiseWest–East Qiangtang collision', Scientific Reportshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-018-19342-w. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)