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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-lite/lʌɪt/

▶suffix forming names of rocks, minerals, and fossils: rhyolite.

– origin from Fr., from Gk lithos ‘stone’.

'-lite' also found in these Oxford entries:

chiastolite - crocidolite - graptolite - lepidolite - litany - lite - oolite - ophiolite - pendente lite - sodalite - stromatolite - zeolite

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