nepheline
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 9
Definition of nepheline
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)A feldspathoid mineral of silica-poor igneous, plutonic and volcanic rocks. Chemically, nepheline is a plagioclase feldspar with insufficient silica to satisfy the chemical bonds. Because of the unfilled bonds, nepheline weathers rapidly and can only be seen as inclusions in freshly broken rock.
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), because crystals become cloudy when exposed to acid, + -ine.
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