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What is an albite?

What is an albite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A plagioclase feldspar, the first member of the Albite-Anorthite solid solution series.
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Mylonitic rocks usually have ribbon quartz and rotated albite porphyroclasts.
The phenakite is also associated with albite, limonite, smoky quartz, and topaz and is often overlooked because it resembles quartz.
Well-formed crystals of quartz, microcline, and albite typically line pocket walls.
The first phase of diagenetic albite constitutes an impure, turbid variety including albitized grains of original plagioclase and alkali feldspar.
The lake may have dried up or nearly dried up periodically, producing outward concentric zones of albite, analcime, clinoptilolite, and smectite.
These crystals were abundant in a very micaceous pegmatitic rock composed of muscovite, albite, and quartz with accessory schorl crystals.

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