Min. [ad. G. uralit (1831), f. Ural (mountains) + -ITE1 2 b. Cf. F. ouralite.] ‘Pyroxene altered to amphibole’ (Chester).
1835. Penny Cycl., III. 85/2. The uralites of [Professor G.] Rose appear to be its natural consequence.
1849. Murchison, Siluria, App. C. 538. Hypersthene and diallage are partly changed into uralite.
1883. Rutley, Rock-Forming Min., 180. The well-known paramorphic conversion [of augite] into hornblende, the result being termed Uralite.
b. Uralite-porphyry, -syenite: (see quots.).
1868. Watts’ Dict. Chem., V. 940. Uralite-porphyry, an aphanite-porphyry occurring in the Ural, containing uralite, and sometimes also crystals of labradorite.
1888. Cassell’s Encycl. Dict., VII. 382. Uralite-syenite, a variety of syenite … which contains uralite.
