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Flint vs Chalcedony - What's the difference?

flint | chalcedony |

As nouns the difference between flint and chalcedony

is that flint is a hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck while chalcedony is a form of fine-grained quartz that is nearly transparent or has a milky translucence; it fractures conchoidally.

As a verb flint

is to furnish or decorate an object with flint.

As a proper noun Flint

is a city in Michigan.

flint

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
  • A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
  • A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
  • Derived terms

    * gunflint

    See also

    * chert * ferrocerium

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
  • chalcedony

    English

    Noun

    (chalcedonies)
  • A form of fine-grained quartz that is nearly transparent or has a milky translucence; it fractures conchoidally.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=Lee A. Groat , title=Gemstones , volume=100, issue=2, page=128 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony , garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}

    See also

    * (noun: types of minerals) agate, chert, flint, moganite * (adjective) conchoidal * (adverb) conchoidally * (noun) break, fracture, flake, shatter * (verb) knapp, break, fracture, flake, shatter