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What is the difference between flint and granite?

flint | granite |

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

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.
  • granite

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 27, author=Nathan Rabin
  • , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , passage=The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.}}

    Derived terms

    * granitic * granitoid * granitelike * graniteware * pregranitic

    See also

    * pegmatite, feldspar, quartz, granodiorite

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