A type of colored rock or mineral variety of leucite that contains chromium, giving it distinctive coloring.
From Greek 'chroma' (color) + 'leukos' (white) + '-ite' (mineral or stone suffix). The term combines the mineral leucite with a color descriptor, used in mineralogy since the late 1800s.
Minerals with chromium in them often turn beautiful colors—chromium is the same element that makes rubies red and emeralds green, so this colored version of leucite is nature's way of painting rocks with chemistry.
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