Min. [mod. (Breithaupt, 1846) f. Gr. λοξ-ός oblique + κλάσ-ις fracture.] A variety of orthoclase, containing sodium.
1846. Amer. Jrnl. Sci., II. 414. Loxoclase is near feldspar in its characters.
1852. C. U. Shepard, Min. (ed. 3), 187. Loxoclase … occurs in regular crystals.
1893. Chapman, Blowpipe Pract., 259. Loxoclase is also a variety but resembles Oligoclase in composition.
