(n.) A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of qualitatively different nutrition and additional vitaminization with varying doses of "Glutamevitum" on excretion with urine of vitamins B1, B2 PP and C, as well as the presence of microclinical symptoms of vitamin deficiency and psychophysiological parameters were studied in 120 children (6 groups, 20 subjects in each) who went to school at six years of age.
(2) It was impossible to ascertain whether these synthetic crystals may be sanidine, orthoclase, or microcline.
Plutonic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the system of the Plutonists; igneous; as, the Plutonic theory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The causative agent of American foulbrood is Bacillus larvae, the causes of the European foulbrood diseases are Streptococcus pluton and Bacillus alvei and the causes of the septicemia are Pseudomonas apiseptica and Escherichia coli in honeybees (Apis mellifera).
(2) Four small towns in the pluton area were investigated in the valley of the river Cervo.