a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen
bronzite in American English
(ˈbrɑnzait)
noun
a greenish-brown or black mineral with a bronzelike luster, an orthorhombic pyroxene, (Mg,Fe)2(Si2O6), intermediate in composition between enstatite and hypersthene
Word origin
[1810–20; bronze + -ite1; so called from its sheen]This word is first recorded in the period 1810–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: duplex, nihilism, realism, voodoo, zombie-ite is a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader,doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite; Israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, esp. salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body (somite)
Examples of 'bronzite' in a sentence
bronzite
In terms of composition, clinopyroxene corresponds to diopside, less often to fassaite, and orthopyroxene to bronzite and hypersthene.
V. V. Chashchin, E. N. Steshenko, Ye. E. Savchenko, Ya. A. Pakhomovsky, A. V. Bazai 2016, 'Mineral associations in the rocks and metamorphism conditions of the Kandalaksha gabbro-anorthositemassif (Kola Peninsula)', Литосфераhttps://test.lithosphere.ru/jour/article/view/40. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)