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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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The phenakite is also associated with albite, limonite, smoky quartz, and topaz and is often overlooked because it resembles quartz.
Here it was associated with quartz, albite, schorl, muscovite, and microcline in the intermediate zone.
The composition studied has very low albite and is classified as transitional between olivine nephelinite and nepheline-rich basanite.
White intergrowths of albite crystals are a common associate of amazonite and smoky quartz.
All three are dominated by unaltered muscovite, quartz, K-feldspar and albite, with minor epidote.
Mylonitic rocks usually have ribbon quartz and rotated albite porphyroclasts.

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