albitite Min.
(ˈælbɪtaɪt)
[f. albite + -ite1.]
A form of albite (see quot. 1940). Hence albiˈtitic a.
| 1896 H. W. Turner in Amer. Geologist XVII. 380 Some of these dikes are composed of coarsely granular albite only. Such a rock may be called an albitite. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 20/2 Albitite, a rare type of soda-syenite consisting almost entirely of albite, with a small content of coloured silicates. 1955 Brown & Dey India's Min. Wealth (ed. 3) xvii. 636 Intermediate in composition are the albititic jadeitites which grade into the albitites—granulitic rocks composed almost exclusively of untwinned albite. |