- Look up
porphyry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Porphyry (/ˈpɔːrfɪri/; Gr****: Πορφύριος,
Porphyrios "purple-clad") may
refer to:
Porphyry (geology)...
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Porphyry (/ˈpɔːrfəri/ POR-fə-ree) is any of
various granites or
igneous rocks with co****-grained
crystals such as
feldspar or
quartz dis****d in a fine-grained...
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Porphyry of Tyre (/ˈpɔːrfɪri/; ‹See Tfd›Gr****: Πορφύριος, Porphýrios; c. 234 – c. AD 305) was a
Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre,
Roman Phoenicia during...
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Porphyry copper deposits are
copper ore
bodies that are
formed from
hydrothermal fluids that
originate from a
voluminous magma chamber several kilometers...
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Porphyric hemophilia may
refer to: Porphyria, a
group of
diseases in
which substances called porphyrins build up Vampirism, a term
describing being a...
- Quartz-
porphyry, in layman's terms, is a type of
volcanic (igneous) rock
containing large porphyritic crystals of quartz.
These rocks are
classified as...
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Kiruna porphyry (Swedish: Kirunaporfyr) is a
group of
igneous rocks found near
Kiruna in
northernmost Sweden. The
Kiruna Porphyry formed 1,880 to 1,900...
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Porphyry Island is an
island in
Unorganized Thunder Bay
District in
northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is the last
island in a
chain stretching south west...
- The two
later biographies were
written by the
Neoplatonist philosophers Porphyry and
Iamblichus and were
partially intended as
polemics against the rise...
- (particularly the
theory of categories), the
Porphyrian tree or Tree of
Porphyry is a
classic device for
illustrating a "scale of being" (Latin:
scala praedicamentalis)...
