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What does enstatite mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A form of pyroxene consisting solely of magnesium silicate.
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In this connexion mention may be made of an altered form of enstatite or bronzite known as bastite or schiller-spar.
Some of the characteristic minerals found in kimberlite are olivine, pyrope garnet, enstatite, diopside, ilmenite, phlogopite, perovskite, magnetite, and spinel.
Other associated minerals include olivine, phlogopite, enstatite, and many other trace accessory minerals.
High-temperature heat capacities and derived thermodynamic properties of anthophyllite, diopside, dolomite, enstatite, bronzite, talc, tremolite, and wollastonite.
The Herbeira websterites contain diopside, enstatite, and pargasite with olivine, garnet, spinel, magnetite and ilmenite as minor phases.
They are sometimes referred to as enstatite achondrites and might somehow be related to the enstatite chondrites.

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