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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An element, such as magnesium, aluminum, sodium, or iron that tends to concentrate in silicate minerals such as igneous rocks in the earth's crust and mantle.

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  • noun chemistry, geology in the Goldschmidt classification, an element that forms silicates or oxides and is concentrated in the minerals of the Earth's crust.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German lithophil : litho-, litho- + -phil, -phile.]

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