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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 , anelement that formssilicates oroxides and isconcentrated in theminerals of theEarth 'scrust .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[German lithophil : litho-, litho- + -phil, -phile.]
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