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Definition of Chondrites
1. chondrite [n] - See also: chondrite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chondrites
Literary usage of Chondrites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System by National Research Council (U.S.) (2007)
"Historically, these interesting stones have received considerably less attention
than have the carbonaceous chondrites. This disparity is due at least in ..."
2. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"31 affords an example of a fairly well-known fossil from the Wenlock limestone,
originally described by Salter as chondrites ..."
3. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"... Miquel chondrites divaricatus Debey and Ettingshausen chondrites elegans Debey
and Ettingshausen chondrites ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"The check-experiments show with the greatest conclusiveness that the chondrites
are entirely composed of crystalline pieces, variously disposed, ..."
5. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"... Miquel chondrites divaricatus Debey and Ettingshausen chondrites elegans Debey
and Ettingshausen chondrites ..."
6. Meteorites: Their Structure, Composition, and Terrestrial Relations by Oliver Cummings Farrington (1915)
"Considering the chondrites alone, the white chondrites were found to have abundant
feldspar while the black chondrites were free from it. ..."
7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1850)
"M. Kurr has likewise described and figured, under the name of chondrites ...
Lias—the very varied forms of which are almost identical with the chondrites ..."
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