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LARVIKITE

Specialty Definition: LARVIKITE

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Mining

An alkalic syenite, grading to monzonite, composed of phenocrysts of two feldspars (esp. oligoclase and alkali feldspar), often intimately intergrown, which comprise up to 90% of the rock, with diopsidic augite and titanaugite as the chief mafic minerals, and accessory apatite (generally abundant), ilmenite, and titaniferous magnetite, and less commonly olivine, bronzite, lepidomelane, and quartz or feldspathoids (less than 10% by volume). Its name, given by Broegger in 1890, is derived from Larvik, Norway. Also spelled laurvikite. Syn:blue granite. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: LARVIKITE

Specialty definitions using "LARVIKITE": commercial granite. (references)

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Anagrams: LARVIKITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-k-l-r-t-v"

-2 letters: airlike, ratlike, talkier, trivial, virelai.

-3 letters: kilter, kiltie, kirtle, lakier, lekvar, livier, retail, retial, tailer, talker, talkie, travel, trivia, varlet, virile.

-4 letters: aiver, alert, alike, alive, alter, ariel, artel, avert, ervil, irate, kevil, kiter, krait, laker, later, latke, laver, liker, litai, liter, litre, liver, livre, ratel, ravel, relit, retia, rival, rivet, taker, taler.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LARVIKITE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 52 56 49 4B 49 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .-    .-.    ...-    ..    -.-    ..    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01010010 01010110 01001001 01001011 01001001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#82 &#86 &#73 &#75 &#73 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0052 0056 0049 004B 0049 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

463552564345435439

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