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Hornstone vs Flint - What's the difference?

hornstone | flint |

As a noun hornstone

is hornfels.

As a proper noun flint is

a city in michigan.

hornstone

English

Noun

  • hornfels

    • 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.