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Definition of Fayalite

Fayalite
Fayalite Fay"al*ite, n. [So called from the island Fayal.] (Min.) A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

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- Fayalite (Fe 2SiO 4, commonly abbreviated to Fa) is the iron-rich end-member of the olivine solid-solution series. In common with all minerals in the olivine...
- solid solution series. It is isomorphous with the iron-rich end-member, fayalite. Forsterite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (space group Pbnm)...
- 4) and fayalite (Fe-endmember: Fe 2SiO 4). Compositions of olivine are commonly expressed as molar percentages of forsterite (Fo) and/or fayalite (Fa) (e...
- temperature. The oxidation of the olivine occurs by an initial breakdown of the fayalite component, and subsequent reaction with the forsterite component, to give...
- a slurry). Such is the case, for example, with the olivine (forsterite-fayalite) system, which is common in Earth's mantle. In chemistry, materials science...
- Fe3O4 + O2 ⇌ 6 Fe2O3 NiNiO: nickel-nickel oxide: 2 Ni + O2 ⇌ 2 NiO FMQ: fayalite-magnetite-quartz: 3 Fe2SiO4 + O2 ⇌ 2 Fe3O4 + 3 SiO2 WM: wüstite-magnetite:...
- endmembers of the solid solution series: forsterite (Mg-endmember: Mg2SiO4) and fayalite (Fe-endmember: Fe2SiO4) but the ratio in olivine is not normally defined...
- Epidote Piemontite Erythrite Esperite Ettringite Euclase Eudialyte Euxenite Fayalite Feldspar subgroup: Andesine Albite Anorthite Anorthoclase Amazonite Bytownite...
- Ferrohortonolite is a mineral variety in the olivine series composed of 70% to 90% fayalite and 30% to 10% forsterite or Fe/(Fe+Mg) ratio of 0.7 to 0.9. It is from...
- iron-rich end-members are considered separate minerals (forsterite and fayalite). The details of these rules are somewhat controversial. For instance,...