foyalite
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fine-grained Plutonic syenite made up of orthoclase, nepheline, hornblende, and accessory mica, sodalite, zircon, noselite, and pyroxene.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[…] while foyalite is an almost pure iron-chrysolite."
- "The free energy remains negative throughout the whole temperature range, indicating that the association forstorite + ilmenite is thermodynamically more stable than foyalite + geikielite."
- "Thin section photograph of foyalite (peralkaline phonolite) from Sevrano ki Dhani."