What's the difference between feldspar and granite?

Feldspar


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Feldspath

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The quantitative mineralogical analysis of small samples (less than 20 mg) of china clay has been investigated using x ray diffractometry to determine kaolinite, mica, quartz, and feldspar.
  • (2) The resulting feldspar-alumina composites were compared for shrinkage then cut and prepared into disc specimens.
  • (3) The lung dust composition in this case was approximately 43% silicon carbide, 24% aluminium oxide, 2.3% cristobalite, 2.0% quartz, and trace of talc and feldspar.
  • (4) Quartz, calcite, feldspar, smectite, inter-stratified phases, kaolinite, amphibole, muscovite and dolomite are other contaminating minerals.
  • (5) The conventional feldspar ceramic is then placed onto this very resistant (more than 580 MPa flexural strength) and exceptionally well adapted framework.
  • (6) The adhesion of Salmonella typhimurium to the mineral particles quartz, albite, feldspar, and magnetite was shown to correlate with the hydrophobicity of the cell surface as measured by hydrophobic interaction chromatography.
  • (7) Significant numbers of primary lung tumors, principally adenocarcinomas and adenomas, were seen in the copper slag (p = 0.005 and p = 0.022 for the primary and secondary slags, respectively), in the feldspar (p = 0.007), in the novaculite (p less than 0.001), and in the Min-U-Sil (p less than 0.001) groups when compared to the vehicle control group.
  • (8) Besides low leucite and glass, we have found a second crystalline phase in the sintered and slow-cooled porcelains that we propose to be potash feldspar (K2O.Al2O3.6SiO2).
  • (9) An application of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) to the study of two types of dislocations in potassium feldspars (K-feldspars) is shown here.
  • (10) Eighty-eight were of mineral origin, mainly quartz and feldspar, and it is believed that the great majority were submitted for secondary gain or for psychiatric reasons.
  • (11) Feldspar-alumina composites shrank approximately 30%; shrinkage of 15-20% occurred only in composites involving spherical alumina (average particle size 5.4 microns).
  • (12) Kaolinite, talc, mica, feldspars, and crystalline silica comprised the majority of particles of both groups.
  • (13) If the soil where potatoes are grown contains feldspars, sprout inhibition treatment with 100-200-Gy doses can also be detected for up to one year, using the 90-250 degrees C low-temperature part of the TL spectrum for evaluation.
  • (14) Composites of feldspar and spherical alumina were observed to be stronger than those of feldspar and nonspherical alumina.
  • (15) The major reaction seen in both the feldspar- and the novaculite-treated rats was a granulomatous inflammation with varying degrees of fibrosis associated with the granulomas.
  • (16) A 140% increase in the breaking strength of Keradens facings may be achieved by ion exchange, i.e., by substitution of the small sodium ions in soda feldspar by the larger potassium ions, which is done by melting the soda feldspar with potassium nitrate.
  • (17) The rare earths were added to a potassium feldspar glass host and emission spectra were measured.
  • (18) Exposure to mica is usually associated with exposure to other minerals such as quartz and feldspar.
  • (19) Quartz and feldspar were determined direct from prepared calibration graphs.
  • (20) The degradability of DNA adsorbed to minor mineral fractions (feldspar and heavy minerals) of the sand differed from that of quartz-adsorbed DNA.

Granite


Definition:

  • (n.) A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three scientists, George Wald, Ragnar Granit, and Haldan Keffer Hartline, were named last week to share the 1967 Nobel prize in medicine or physiology.
  • (2) The spirograms of 118 granite quarry workers were digitised using an electronic digitising pen.
  • (3) Better estimates of exposure-dose relationships in talc and granite workers as well as longer-term animal studies are required to evaluate the harmfulness of these work environments at present-day exposure levels.
  • (4) The taxpayer remains on the hook for Northern Rock (Asset Management), which has about £50bn worth of mortgages, many of which were parked offshore in the perfectly misnamed "Granite" vehicle, which turned to dust during the credit crunch.
  • (5) It is concluded that occupational exposure to granite dust is associated with an increased proportion of lymphocytes and an increased concentration of immunoglobulin in lavage fluid that may reflect a subclinical immune inflammatory response.
  • (6) His granite-hard nature poetry won him both critical praise and a wide readership, which only grew after his appointment as poet laureate in 1984.
  • (7) Poland hold nerve after Switzerland’s Granit Xhaka blazes penalty wide Read more It was a turgid and torturous game, heavy on physicality and sorely lacking in class, particularly in the final third.
  • (8) The £4,000 granite memorial was smashed up to be used as landfill at the request of Savile's family.
  • (9) His style plays to Peter Mandelson's ingenious line (which I don't think Lord Mandelson believes in for a moment) that Cameron is plastic to Gordon Brown's granite .
  • (10) Alex explains that a vast granite bowl beneath our feet prevents water draining away, creating the swamp into which Stapleton eventually disappears.
  • (11) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
  • (12) Nine granite workers with 4 to 36 yr of employment in the industry and 27 unexposed volunteers were normal by history, physical examination, electrocardiogram, blood count, spirometry, and chest radiograph.
  • (13) The frequency and correctness of respirators were studied in 5 granite quarries in Singapore involving 201 workers.
  • (14) While Southampton held out the vision of authorities generating power on a larger scale, Cornwall raised the prospect of tapping geothermal energy from the county's granite base.
  • (15) UKAR – which currently has 389,000 mortgage and loan customers inherited from Northern Rock and B&B – announced on Tuesday that it had repaid another £3.7bn in its financial year, taking the total to more than £14bn, and was on course to repay another £5bn by selling off Granite.
  • (16) It’s raining, but Peter keeps us entertained, explaining how the 22-mile granite Mourne Wall was built, passing over 15 mountains to enclose a reservoir catchment area.
  • (17) The standardized incidence ratio (SIR) for lung cancer was 200 (44 observed, 22.0 expected) for all skilled stone workers, 808 (7 observed, 0.9 expected) for skilled sandstone cutters in Copenhagen, 119 (8 observed, 6.5 expected) for skilled granite cutters in Bornholm, 181 (24 observed, 13.2 expected) for all unskilled stone workers, 246 (17 observed, 6.9 expected) for unskilled workers in the road and building material industry, and 111 (7 observed, 6.3 expected) for unskilled workers in the stonecutting industry.
  • (18) There's limestone and sandstone to the north, but Aswan's bedrock is hornblende granite.
  • (19) In London, for instance, the insincere granite cladding of Canary Wharf owes much to his example.
  • (20) However, due to the high radioactivity of aggregates, composed of granite mainly extracted locally, the mean Ra equivalent activity of concrete is high compared with that in some countries.