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What is an albite?

What is an albite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A plagioclase feldspar, the first member of the Albite-Anorthite solid solution series.
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These crystals were abundant in a very micaceous pegmatitic rock composed of muscovite, albite, and quartz with accessory schorl crystals.
Here it was associated with quartz, albite, schorl, muscovite, and microcline in the intermediate zone.
Mylonitic rocks usually have ribbon quartz and rotated albite porphyroclasts.
The quartz and albite contain small dark inclusions of cassiterite and columbite-tantalite-group minerals.
Typical minerals in this facies are quartz, albite, prehnite, pumpellyite, chlorite, stilpnomelane, muscovite, and actinolite.
A plagioclase feldspar, albite probably, occurs as parallel growths of transparent colorless to yellowish crystals.

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