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chert

English

Noun

  • (geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.
  • (countable) A flint-like tool made from chert.

    • Usage notes

    Generally, in mineralogy and geology, a chert does not have a conchoidal fracture. In North American archeology the term chert occasionally is still used for various siliceous minerals (including flint) that have a conchoidal fracture; this leads to confusion between the terms flint and chert in some archeology texts.

    See also

    * chalcedony * flint * jasper * quartzite * silicate

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