cordierite in English

noun

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a dark blue mineral occurring chiefly in metamorphic rocks. It consists of an aluminosilicate of magnesium, and also occurs as a dichroic gem variety.

Monazite clusters occur in a variety of host minerals, including cordierite , quartz, biotite and andalusite.

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1. Cordierite Ceramic – Magnesium Aluminosilicate

2. Staurolite, andalusite, and cordierite are characteristically absent.

3. Two common metamorphic mineral assemblages include sillimanite-cordierite-spinel and cordierite-spinel-plagioclase-orthopyroxene.

4. The corona of cordierite between staurolite and gedrite.

5. The best scheme: The raw meal to the cordierite grog is 3 .

6. In the inner zone of the aureole, increasing temperatures yielded the high grade assemblages: K-feldspar + sillimanite + cordierite ± almandine + biotite + quartz + plagioclase sillimanite + cordierite ± almandine + biotite + quartz + plagioclase.

7. Microporous Beryl (and cordierite) may contain some molecular N 2 (Bebout et al., 2006).

8. All of them contain biotite, 14 cordierite, 6 andalusite, 2 gamet, green spinel, and rare sillimanite.

9. Underlying the massive sulphides is a cylindrical alteration pipe containing sulphides plus cordierite–anthophyllite-bearing rock.

10. Cordierite ceramic is a type of alumina magnesia silicate with specific properties, namely an excellent thermal shock resistance.

11. The three materials were Silicon Carbide, high strength Cordierite and Aluminum Titanate, while the filter design met specific goals.

12. Porous composites of mullite and cordierite are formed by firing an acicular mullite body in the presence of a magnesium source and a silicon source.

13. Cordierite–anthophyllite-bearing rocks are found in alteration pipes below some of the copper–zinc deposits of the Rouyn–Noranda area that occur in Archean volcanics.

14. Mineral assemblages in metasedimentary rocks and associated migmatites consist of quartz, plagioclase, garnet, orthopyroxene, biotite, cordierite, sillimanite, K-feldspar, hercynite, magnetite, ilmenite, and other accessory phases.

15. This sample is a Biotite-cordierite-orthopyroxene gneiss from near Sioux Lookout, Ontario.The field of view, about 2 mm across, is dominated by olive-green-brown Biotite.

16. Results showed that compared with porous SiC ceramics, the MOR of SiC-cordierite was improved significantly, and the TEC decreased remarkably, and the apparent porosity also decreased.

17. The main characteristics for the sialic origin of the Aeolean magmas are: excess of Als2O3; the presence of minerals of evidently not magmatic origin (cordierite, garnet, andalusite and sillimanite); inclusions of relicts of metamorphic schists besides granites and granodiorites; the fact, that some of these magmas are characterized by superheating (e. g. the obsidians of Lipari-island).