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plutonic rock
subject			fact

plutonic rock	is a kind of igneous rock
	has definition cooling of magma in the interior of a planet or asteroid
	has solidification mechanism cooling in deep underground chambers
	has solidification timescale very slow
igneous rock	has composition silicates (with very few exceptions)
rock	has part mineral
	has texture
	has genesis

Kinds of plutonic rock :

• granite (3 facts)
• lherzolite (1 kind)
• plutonic cumulate (6 kinds, 2 facts)
• quartz-alkali feldspar (1 kind)
• ultramafic rock (1 kind)