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Diabase
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; - often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Diabase'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/diabase.html. 1828.