adularize

English

Etymology

From adularia.

Verb

adularize (third-person singular simple present adularizes, present participle adularizing, simple past and past participle adularized)

1. (geology) to gain or be replaced by adularia
   • 1875, Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. F. V. Hayden, Geologist-in-charge, page 153:

     At some localities the sanidite is adularizing.

   • 1935, Nevada Bureau of Mines, Bulletin:

     […] albite, calcite, and pyrite -- are compounds of magnesium, sodium, calcium, and iron, which are the principal elements removed during adularization. The peripheral relation of the chloritized rocks to the adularized rocks  […]