Syenite
At a glance
- Type
- Rock
- Group
- Igneous rock
- Crystal system
- None (a rock)
- Hardness
- Hard (5.5 to 7.5)
- Density
- Medium (2.5 to 3.2)
- Occurs in
- Igneous rocks
- Foliation
- Not layered
- Colour
- Grey, Red, Pink
- Lustre
- Glassy
- Use
- Building
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- The name syenite comes from Syene, today's Aswan in Egypt, although the rock quarried there was in fact mostly granite.
- Larvikite, a Norwegian rock related to syenite with shimmering feldspar, is used as facing stone on buildings worldwide.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q329118 · All stones · All entries