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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, a name given by Wadsworth (1884) to certain ultrabasicigneous rocks, both terrestrial and meteoric, of granular texture and consisting of olivin, enstatite (or bronzite) and augite. Buchnerite is a kind of peridotite.

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