(n.) A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar.
Example Sentences:
(1) It took more than 12 weeks for HAP, HAP.diopside, HAP.anorthite and anorthite block to have osteon in the new bone.
(2) HAP block was created in the long term, and with HAP.anorthite and anorthite block, their inner surface tended to brake apart.
(3) The following results were obtained from the experiment on the five different blocks (HAP, HAP.diopside, diopside, HAP.anorthite and anorthite) which were created as a material of dental implant for in rabbit mandible.
(4) HAP.anorthite and anorthite did not seem to have new bone attached to the direct block.
Plagioclase
Definition:
(n.) A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quantitative analysis by IR, XRD, and visible spectrophotometry requires a preliminary phosphoric acid digestion of the ash sample to remove the plagioclase silicate material which interferes with the determination by these methods.