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Noun

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vesbite (countable and uncountable, plural vesbites)

  1. (mineralogy, obsolete) A lava composed of about 65% leucite, 18% humboldtilite, 20% pyroxene, and 2% magnetite.

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  • 1921, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Geophysical Laboratory, Papers (issues 414-425, page 76)