EXPANSION FISSURE

Domain	Definition
Mining	In petrology, one of a system of fissures that radiate irregularly through feldspar and other minerals adjacent to olivine crystals that have been replaced by serpentine. The alteration of olivine to serpentine involves considerable increase in volume, and the stresses so produced are relieved by the fissuring of the surrounding minerals. This phenomenon is common innorite and gabbro. (references)
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Anagrams: EXPANSION FISSURE

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	Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-i-n-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-u-x"
	-4 letters: pensionaries, unfairnesses.
	-5 letters: anxiousness, expressions, fissiparous, infusorians, personifies, persuasions, profaneness, profuseness, prussianise, saponifiers.
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