kelyphite
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.
Example Sentences
- "Relationships shown in Fig. 3, B and C demonstrate that formation of the symplectite predated development of glassy kelyphite veins which formed by decompression melting during rapid ascent of the host alnöite."
- "Kelyphite is a fine grained, fibrous and radially oriented mineral assembly surrounding partially retrogressed garnet."