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felspar: see feldspar feldspar (fĕl`spär, fĕld`–) or felspar ..... Click the link for more information. . feldspar, felspar any of a group of hard rock-forming minerals consisting of aluminium silicates of potassium, sodium, calcium, or barium: the principal constituents of igneous rocks. The group includes orthoclase, microcline, and the plagioclase minerals |
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It was composed of black and vitreous lava, mixed with fragments of felspar. Beudant [11] succeeded in making tubes, in most respects similar to these fulgurites, by passing very strong shocks of galvanism through finely-powdered glass: when salt was added, so as to increase its fusibility, the tubes were larger in every dimension, They failed both with powdered felspar and quartz. Thus she contrives to intenerate the granite and felspar, takes the boar out and puts the lamb in and keeps her balance true. |
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