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Phaneritic
Phaneritic is a term usually used to refer to igneous rock grain size. It means that the size of grains in the rock are between 1 and 10 millimeters, as opposed to aphanitic (which is too small to see with the naked eye), or pegmatitic (whose crystals are above 1 centimeter in size).
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