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Flint

A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.

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Heartless 84% connected

Without a heart.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Heartless 84% connected

Without a heart.

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Firestone 76% connected

Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gunflint 76% connected

A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.

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Broader term 1

Silica 76% connected

Silicon dioxide, SiO/. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodor…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flinty 74% connected

Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Flinty 74% connected

Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Flinty 92% connected

Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Granitic 92% connected

Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Obdurate 92% connected

Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stony 92% connected

Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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