Crossword-Solution: TINSTONE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tinstone | n. | Cassiterite. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TINSTONE | anagram | TONTINES |
We have 3 clues for the answer “TINSTONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| black or brown stone | 1 answer |
| Cassiterite | 3 answers |
| black mineral | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TINSTONE (5)
TIN ~Occurrence.~ Tin is found in nature chiefly as the oxide (SnO_{2}), called cassiterite or tinstone.
The most famous mines are those of Cornwall in England, and of the Malay Peninsula and East India Islands; in small amounts tinstone is found in many other localities.
Stream tin is not pure metallic tin, but is the result of the disintegration of granitic and other rocks which contain veins of tinstone.
Among the less common accessories may be mentioned pinkish garnets; andalusite in small pleochroic crystals; colourless grains of topaz; six-sided compound crystals of cordierite, which weather to dark green pinite; blue-black hornblende (riebeckite), beryl, tinstone, orthite and pyrites.
Veins of quartz, tourmaline and chlorite may traverse the granite, containing tinstone often in workable quantities.