What is the difference between flint and granite?
flint | granite |
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.
(rock) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.
(uncountable, figurative) Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.
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As nouns the difference between flint and granite
is that flint is a hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck while granite is a group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.As a verb flint
is to furnish or decorate an object with flint.flint
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(en noun)Derived terms
* gunflintSee also
* chert * ferroceriumgranite
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(wikipedia granite)Noun
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