fenite

English

Noun

fenite (countable and uncountable, plural fenites)

  1. (mineralogy) A metasomatic rock often containing carbonatite intrusions
    • 1956, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 210:
      There Strauss & Truter record a gradual transition from the white umptekite (fenite) to a pulaskitic rock with nepheline.

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