chert

Noun

Meaning

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dickens nick flint firestone deuce material equipment silex chart fabric devil silica slate clerical shale
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Antonyms

abstract

Hypernyms

silica silicon dioxide silicon oxide

Hyponyms

taconite

Phrases with the word

argillaceous chert containing chert like chert chert point

Anagrams

retch ECtHR

Examples

Flint (a type of chert unique to chalk) is very common as bands parallel to the bedding or as nodules embedded in chalk. Source: Internet

Grains can include quartz or chert rock fragments. Source: Internet

It includes large flint and chert bifacials that may be of Heavy Neolithic origin. Source: Internet

The oxygen then combined with dissolved iron in Earth's oceans to form insoluble iron oxides, which precipitated out, forming a thin layer on the ocean floor, which may have been anoxic mud (forming shale and chert). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Chersonesus Scythia Chersonesus Taurica Chersonesus Thracica chertification chertified chertify