Crossword-Solution: HORNBLENDE
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| Hornblende | n. | The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of the species, and is also characterized by its containing considerable iron. Also used as a general term to include the whole species. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “HORNBLENDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Green to black mineral | 1 answer |
| the common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole | 1 answer |
| Aluminous mineral | 2 answers |
| GREENSTONE constituent | 2 answers |
| amphibole | 4 answers |
| MONZONITE, component of | 4 answers |
| TONALITE, component of | 4 answers |
| GRANULAR rock used for building | 4 answers |
| GRANITE, constituent of | 5 answers |
| A GREEN TO BLACK MINERAL OF THE AMPHIBOLE GROUP | 11 answers |
| BUILDING material | 45 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.
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Sentences with HORNBLENDE (5)
Many a little hand Glanced like a touch of sunshine on the rocks, Many a light foot shone like a jewel set In the dark crag: and then we turned, we wound About the cliffs, the copses, out and in, Hammering and clinking, chattering stony names Of shales and hornblende, rag and trap and tuff, Amygdaloid and trachyte, till the Sun Grew broader toward his death and fell, and all The rosy heights came out above the lawns.
When we come to study the chemical composition and the microscopical structure of lavas, however, we shall find that there are many respects in which they differ entirely from these artificial products, they consisting chiefly of felspar, or of this substance in association with augite or hornblende.
Dark trappean rocks full of hornblende have in many places burst through these schists, and appear in nodules on the surface.
These rocks possess an extremely varying character; they consist of black, brown, and grey, compact, basaltic bases, with numerous crystals of augite, hornblende, olivine, mica, and sometimes glassy feldspar.
Their rusty brown or yellowish colour is partly due to the oxides of iron, but chiefly to innumerable, microscopically minute, black specks, which, when a fragment is heated, are easily fused, and evidently are either hornblende or augite.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1996–2014).