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pyroxenic
py·rox·ene P0690600 (pī-rŏk′sēn′)n. Any of a group of crystalline silicate minerals common in igneous and metamorphic rocks and containing two metallic oxides, as of magnesium, iron, calcium, sodium, or aluminum.
[French pyroxène : Greek puro-, pyro- + Greek xenos, stranger (originally viewed as a foreign substance when found in igneous rocks); see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots.]
py′rox·en′ic (pī′rŏk-sē′nĭk, -sĕn′ĭk) adj.
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