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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, a variety of the igneous rock phonolite, first observed in the Apache mountains of Texas, characterized by sodic amphiboles and ænigmatite as associates of the usual sodic pyroxenes, and by microperthite feldspar.
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- noun mineralogy A monoclinic blue
mineral containingcopper ,hydrogen ,oxygen , andsilicon .
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Apache + -ite
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