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porphyry::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | porphyritic rock |
| Type of | igneous rock |
| Derivation | porphyritic |
Examples of porphyry
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It is opulently decorated with porphyry, the rarest marbles and precious stones.
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Porphyry also wrote widely on astrology, religion, philosophy, and musical theory.
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Lowell and Guilbert went on to study 27 porphyry copper deposits around the world.
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The term porphyry is also used for a mineral deposit called a copper porphyry.
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Porphyry deposits are formed when a column of rising magma is cooled in two stages.
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Porphyry says Milo's house at Croton was burned and the Pythagoreans within stoned.
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A granitic rock with a porphyritic texture is sometimes known as a porphyry.
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Another pink and green rhyolite porphyry occurs in Holder, Weston and Lyons.
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Unlike permeable gravel beds, porphyry surfaces require little maintenance.
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- Any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals
- Porphyry is a variety of igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass. The larger crystals are called phenocrysts. ...
- Porphyry of Tyre (/u02C8pu0254u02D0rfu0259ri/; Greek: u03A0u03BFu03C1u03C6u03CDu03C1u03B9u03BFu03C2, Porphyrios, Arabic: Furfu016Briyu016Bs; c. 234 u2013 c. 305 AD) was a Neoplatonic philosopher who was born in Tyre, in the Roman Empire. He edited and published the Enneads, the only collection of the work of his teacher Plotinus. His commentary on Euclid's Elements was used as a source by Pappus of Alexandria.
- (Porphyrius). His real name was Malek, which led to his being regarded as a Jew. He came from Tyre, and having first studied under Longinus, the eminent philosopher-critic, became the disciple of Plotinus, at Rome. ...
- An igneous rock which has porphyritic texture.
- A deposit in which contains minerals of copper, molybdenum and gold as disseminations or in a stockwork of small veinlets with a large mass of hydrothermally altered igneous rock. Most deposits are large and low grade and are mined using bulk mining methods
- Influential 3rd century pythagorean mathematician and neoplatonist philosopher. Born in Syria, he studied in Athens under Longinus and in Rome under Plotinus. Unfortunately, his main work Introduction to Astronomy in Three Books is now lost. ...
- Porphyritic rock; first applied to a purple-red rock quarried in Egypt and characterized by phenocrysts of alkali feldspar; usage: rock name descriptive of the groundmass composition usually precedes the term; e.g., diorite porphyry [DMMRT]
- Igneous rock in which relatively large and conspicuous grains, called phenocrysts, are surrounded by a finer-grained matrix, generally called the groundmass.
