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How to use hypersthene in a sentence

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How about apatite, apophyllite, axinite, chlorite, hypersthene, scapolite, serpentine, tantalite, and wolframite?
Little-weathered grains of hypersthene and rare clasts of limestone persist throughout the profile, as evidence for limited chemical weathering.
The Johnstown meteorite is classified as a calcium-poor diogenite, being composed mainly of hypersthene, with minor amounts of plagioclase and olivine.
The hypersthene diabase grades upward into diabase with variable texture and grain size, and is locally aplitic, granophyric or pegmatitic.
Quartz diabase grades upward into hypersthene diabase, which forms up to two-thirds of the sill thickness.
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Green augite and hypersthene form a considerable part of these rocks, they may contain also biotite, hornblende and quartz.
It may be noted also that hypersthene shows a tendency to magmatic alteration, although only rarely.
Both are light colored, and the pleochroism of the hypersthene is sometimes quite faint.
On Crater Peak, and below on Gibraltar, hypersthene andesite occurs with considerable variation of color and texture.
They rarely contain olivine, but pleochroic hypersthene is by no means rare in them.
Hypersthene and scapolite both may occur in these rocks and they are sometimes garnetiferous.
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