Crossword-Solution: SCHORL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Schorl | n. | Black tourmaline. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SCHORL”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| BLACK tourmaline | 1 answer |
| TOURMALINE, black | 1 answer |
| type of black tourmaline | 1 answer |
| BLACK prismatic crystal | 2 answers |
| tourmaline | 4 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "SCHORL"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Length times width e.g.
?
A
?
R
?
E
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
17 +1
New Suggestion for "SCHORL"
Related word tools
Sentences with SCHORL (5)
Near Valparaiso the prevailing rock is gneiss, generally including much hornblende: concretionary balls formed of feldspar, hornblende and mica, from two or three feet in diameter, are in very many places conformably enfolded by the foliated gneiss: veins of quartz and feldspar, including black schorl and well-crystallised epidote, are numerous.
Numerous other minerals are at times mistaken for tin, the most common of which are tourmaline or schorl, garnet, wolfram (which is a tungstate of iron with manganese), rutile or titanic acid, blackjack or zinc blende, together with magnetic, titanic, and specular iron in fine grains.
Among these black schorl or tourmaline, actinolite, zircon, garnet, and fluor spar are not uncommon; but they are too sparingly dispersed to modify the general aspect of the rock.
Sometimes the red schorl occurs only in dendritic crystals of a bright red.* (* Especially below the Cross of La Guayra, at 594 toises of absolute elevation.) The gneiss of the valley of Caracas is characterized by the red and green garnets it contains; they however disappear when the rock passes into mica-slate.
Roche hermitage in Cornwall occupies a spire of rocks of schorl that shoots 100 feet above the surrounding moor.