English Explanatory Dictionary

ferropericlase

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a class of minerals, mixed oxides of magnesium and iron, that are abundant in the earth's lower mantle (second only to perovskite)

Word forms

ferropericlase ferropericlases

Etymology

From ferro- + periclase.

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