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marekanite

marekanite noun: an Apache tear (obsidian nodule).

Noun

marekanite (countable and uncountable, plural marekanites)

  1. An Apache tear (obsidian nodule).
    • Marekanite balls from Corinto in Nicaragua are described; they are about the size of hazel-nuts, and black, with vitreous lustre.1899, The Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London, page 38
    • Marekanites are often found as embedded remnants within perlite.2010, M. Steven Shackley, X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF) in Geoarchaeology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 219
  2. The material which such nodules consist of.
    • But the nature of marekanite is now well understood. It is the perlitic or subpumiceous modification of a glassy rhyolitic rock in situ on […]1897, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, page 43

Forms of marekanite

pluralmarekanites

Questions about marekanite

What does marekanite mean?
Marekanite means an Apache tear (obsidian nodule).
What part of speech is marekanite?
Marekanite is a noun.
What is the plural of marekanite?
The plural of marekanite is marekanites.

Words near marekanite in the dictionary

  1. Mareham le Fen
  2. Marehan
  3. Marehay
  4. Marek
  5. Marek's disease
  6. marekanite
  7. marekanites
  8. Mareks
  9. Marella
  10. Marellas
  11. maremma

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