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Amphoteric
adjective · 78% connection
Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Amygdaloid
noun · 78% connection
A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Anorthite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Axinite
noun · 78% connection
A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Base
noun · 78% connection
The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Breastwheel
noun · 78% connection
A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Cabazite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Chondrule
noun · 78% connection
A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of man…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Cliff limestone
unknown · 78% connection
A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Curtail dog
unknown · 78% connection
A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut sho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Datolite
noun · 78% connection
A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Devitrification
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Dowel
noun · 78% connection
A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Extrinsic
adjective · 78% connection
Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part/ -- said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Fibrochondrosteal
adjective · 78% connection
Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Gabbro
noun · 78% connection
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Glassy
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
Holocrystalline
adjective · 78% connection
Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: partly, crystalline, said, rock, consists.
