Crustal vs Ore - What's the difference?
crustal | ore |
Of, pertaining to, or forming a crust, especially the crust of the Earth or other planet etc.
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA, p. 189:
Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which—at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction—are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.
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As an adjective crustal
is of, pertaining to, or forming a crust, especially the crust of the earth or other planet etc.As a verb ore is
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The hope was to lower a drill through over 4,000 metres of Pacific Ocean water off the coast of Mexico and drill some 5,000 metres through relatively thin crustal rock.
Anagrams
*ore
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(wikipedia ore)Noun
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
