Crossword-Solution: NORITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Norite | n. | A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NORITE | anagram | ETNOIR, IRETON, NOIRET, ORIENT, REINTO, TINORE, TONIER, TOREIN, TRINEO, TRONIE |
We have 4 clues for the answer “NORITE”
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| Rock named for a Scandinavian country | 1 answer |
| variety of gabbro | 1 answer |
| Coarse-grained igneous rock | 2 answers |
| Igneous rock. | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with NORITE (5)
Masses sufficiently large for cutting are found in the norite of the Kupferberg in the Fichtelgebirge, and in the serpentine of Kraubat near Leoben in Styria.
The Sudbury nickel ores, of Ontario, Canada, the principal source of the world's nickel, lie mainly within and along the lower margin of a great intrusive igneous mass of a basic type called _norite_, and locally the ores project beyond the margin into adjacent rocks.
Their textures and their intercrystallization with the primary minerals of the igneous rock have suggested that they are essentially a part of the norite mass, and that they crystallized during some segregative processes which were effective before the magma had solidified.
Near the ores there are likely to be granitic rocks, which, like the ores, seem to be segregations from the norite magma.
Locally both the ores and the associated granitic rocks replace the main norite body in such a fashion as to indicate their slightly later crystallization.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2001–2020).