Crossword-Solution: DIORITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diorite | n. | An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “DIORITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Crystalline igneous rock | 1 answer |
| Grayish igneous rock | 1 answer |
| Igneous rock composed of feldspar and hornblende | 1 answer |
| Igneous rock on which the Code of Hammurabi is inscribed | 1 answer |
| dark coarse-grained igneous plutonic rock | 1 answer |
| greenstone | 3 answers |
| ANY IGNEOUS ROCK WITH CRYSTALS EMBEDDED IN A FINER GROUNDMASS OF MINERALS | 10 answers |
| A CRYSTALLINE ROCK THAT CAN BE CUT AND POLISHED FOR JEWELRY | 10 answers |
| A GRANULAR CRYSTALLINE INTRUSIVE ROCK | 10 answers |
| AN IGNEOUS DESERT ATMOSPHERE | 11 answers |
| Crystalline rock | 12 answers |
| Igneous rock. | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEEMZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DIORITE (5)
Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc.
But a rival, of Solutr]/e, told the tribe my style was _outr]/e_ -- 'Neath a tomahawk of diorite he fell.
Geologically the Andes are yet in a chaotic and formative condition; huge slides of Silurian slates and diorite are of frequent occurrence.
This extraordinary document is a black diorite block 8 feet high, once containing 21 columns on the obverse, 16 and 28 columns on the reverse, with 2540 lines of writing of which now 1114 remain, and surmounted by the figure of the king receiving the law from the Sun-god.
Admitting then that gneiss, mica-schist, granite, diorite, &c., were once necessarily covered up, how can we account for the naked and extensive areas of such rocks in many parts of the world, except on the belief that they have subsequently been completely denuded of all overlying strata? That such extensive areas do exist cannot be doubted: the granitic region of Parime is described by Humboldt as being at least nineteen times as large as Switzerland.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1953–2014).