orthoclase

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Orthoclase

Etymology

ortho- +‎ Ancient Greek κλαστός (klastos, “broken”)

Noun

orthoclase (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) Potassium aluminum silicate, KAlSi₃O₈, a common feldspar of igneous, plutonic, and metamorphic rocks. Orthoclase is the main feldspar of pegmatite occurrences, where it is most commonly flesh-colored. Orthoclase is used in the ceramic and glass industries and as a decorative gravel.

Translations

potassium aluminum silicate

• Bulgarian: ортоклаз (ortoklaz)
• Chinese: 正长石
• Czech: ortoklas (cs) m
• Dutch: orthoklaas
• Finnish: ortoklaasi (fi)
• German: Orthoklas m
• Hebrew: אורתוקלז (ōrtōqlaz)
• Irish: ortaclás (ga) m
• Japanese: 正長石 (ja)
• Korean: 정장석 (jŏŋ.jaŋ.sŏg)

• Polish: ortoklaz m
• Portuguese: ortoclase
• Russian: ортоклаз (ru) (ortoklaz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ортоклаз

  Roman: ortoklaz

• Slovak: ortoklas
• Spanish: ortoclasa (es) f
• Swedish: ortoklas
• Vietnamese: oc-to-cla

See also

rock, mineral, pegmatite

sanidine, adularia