feldspar
Noun
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Noun
feldspar
- (mineral) Any of a large group of rock-forming minerals that, together, make up about 60% of the earth's outer crust. The feldspars are all aluminum silicates of the alkali metals sodium, potassium, calcium and barium. Feldspars are the principal constituents of igneous and plutonic rocks.
- French: feldspath
- German: Feldspat
- Italian: feldspato
- Portuguese: feldspato
- Russian: полево́й шпат
- Spanish: feldespato
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