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S vs Cherty - What's the difference?

s | cherty |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective cherty is

(geology|mineralogy) containing chert.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    cherty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (geology, mineralogy) Containing chert.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1879, author=James Stevenson, title=Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Rudely shaped, of hard cherty rock, flat on the inner face, convex on the back. 2759. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Charles Darwin, title=A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty , in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine. }}
  • * {{quote-journal, 1998, date=February 6, Chia-Wei Li et al., Precambrian Sponges with Cellular Structures, Science citation
    • , passage=It is represented by a phosphate-dolostone sequence in Wengan, where it is 33 to 55 m thick and consists mainly of dark phosphate, cherty phosphate, chert, and gray dolomite. }}