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  2. Cumulate rock - Wikipedia

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    In nature, cumulates usually form from 2 mineral species, although ranges from 1 to 4 mineral species are known. Cumulate rocks which are formed from one mineral alone are often named after the mineral, for example a 99% magnetite cumulate is known as a magnetitite. A specific example is the Skaergaard intrusion in Greenland.

  3. Bancroft rule - Wikipedia

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    In all of the typical emulsions, there are tiny particles (discrete phase) suspended in a liquid (continuous phase). In an oil-in-water emulsion, oil is the discrete phase, while water is the continuous phase. What the Bancroft rule states is that contrary to common sense, what makes an emulsion oil-in-water or water-in-oil is not the relative ...

  4. Macroemulsion - Wikipedia

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    For example, a mixture that is 60% Water and 40% Oil can form an emulsion where the water is the dispersed phase and the oil is the continuous phase if the emulsifier is more soluble in the oil. This is because the continuous phase is the phase that can coalesce the fastest upon mixing, which means it is the phase that can diffuse the ...

  5. List of rock textures - Wikipedia

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  6. Fractional crystallization (geology) - Wikipedia

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    An example of such texture, related to fractioned crystallization, is intergranular (also known as intercumulus) textures that develop wherever a mineral crystallizes later than the surrounding matrix, hence filling the left-over interstitial space. Various oxides of chromium, iron and titanium show such textures, such as intergranular chromite ...

  7. Dispersion (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the classification by particle size, dispersions can also be labeled by the combination of the dispersed phase and the medium phase that the particles are suspended in. Aerosols are liquids dispersed in a gas, sols are solids in liquids, emulsions are liquids dispersed in liquids (more specifically a dispersion of two immiscible ...

  8. Creaming (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Creaming, in the laboratory sense, is the migration of the dispersed phase of an emulsion under the influence of buoyancy.The particles float upwards or sink depending on how large they are and density compared to the continuous phase as well as how viscous or how thixotropic the continuous phase might be.

  9. Pressure-temperature-time path - Wikipedia

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    From 1910 Ma (i.e. 1910 million years ago) to 1840 Ma, the rock experienced an increase in P-T conditions and formed mineral garnet, which is attributed to burial and heating. After that, the rock was continuously heated to the peak temperature and formed mineral cordierite. Meanwhile, it went through a great decrease in pressure around 1840 Ma ...