Feldspar in a sentence as a noun

The K is mostly contained in alkali feldspar and mica.

Granite, by the way, is composed of different materials, such as, for example, feldspar and quartz.

" Rocks that are on the surface get weathered and eroded; quartz and feldspar on exposed granite become successive layers of sandstone.

Rarely is it made into jewelry, usually only as an inclusion into another mineral such as quartz or feldspar.

I would guess not, otherwise it would exist in nature"Moonstone sometimes exhibits red-orange coloration due to its structure of alternating layers of different types of feldspar.

Whereas magmas at mid-ocean ridges become enriched in iron because of the crystallisation of plagioclase feldspar, at subduction zones the presence of water suppresses feldspar crystallisation, instead producing 'wet' minerals like amphibole.

Feldspar definitions

noun

any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium

See also: felspar