Crossword-Solution: PEGMATITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pegmatite | n. | Graphic granite. See under Granite. |
| Pegmatite | n. | More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks. |
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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
ZECMEA
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eruption
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Sentences with PEGMATITE (5)
Darwin, almost as soon as he landed, was struck by the circumstance that the direction, as shown by his compass, of the prominent features of these great crystalline rock-masses--their cleavage, master-joints, foliation and pegmatite veins--was the same as the orientation described by Humboldt (whose works he had so carefully studied) on the west of the same great continent.
The quartz diorites are: some medium-grained, some coarse-grained (quartz-diorite-pegmatite), with streaks of black mica.
Pegmatite and Porphyry (with a very few small crystals of felspar) and Gneiss? were observed in situ.
The bed of the creek was full of blocks of Sienite, of hornblende Porphyry, of greenish Pegmatite, and of cellular Basalt.
Many of them were composed of quartzite and pegmatite [Graphic granite, composed of quartz and laminated felspar.--ED.], the detritus of which formed sandy slopes very different from the black and loamy soil of the table land and its plains.
Quotes with PEGMATITE (1)
The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have cracked ordinary New England pegmatite - big, coarse granite - and laid bare clusters of red garnets, or topaz crystals, chrysoberyl, spodumene, emerald. They held in their hands crystals that had hung in a hole in the dark for a billion years unseen. I was all for it. I would lay about me right and left with a hammer, and bash the landscape to bits. I would crack…