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Definition of Chondrule
1. Noun. Small granule (of e.g. chrysolite) found in some meteoric rocks.
Definition of Chondrule
1. n. A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
Definition of Chondrule
1. Noun. A small, round granule, formed from molten rock, found in chondritic meteorites ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chondrule
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Chondrule
Literary usage of Chondrule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"Greenish-gray, fragmentary chondrule of i cm. diameter in Chondrite. ... Dark gray
chondrule with white, cruciform skeleton. Antifona, Italy. ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1901)
"A second chondrule is very similar, but no shell is evident, and the block-structure
is less marked. A third chondrule, almost ..."
3. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1921)
"Photomicrograph of porphyritic chondrule in Hendersonville, ... showing the
gradual merging into the general ground-mass of a radiating enstatite chondrule. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"In this the mass of the chondrule is constituted partly of fine granular dusky
... In another kind of chondrule the mass is divided or fractured by strong ..."
5. Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology by Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin (1994)
"We have conducted laboratory experiments to determine rates and other details of
this exchange process by melting chondrule-sized droplets of meteoritic ..."
6. Earth Evolution and Its Facial Expression by William Herbert Hobbs (1921)
"Left, olivine crystal from the Pallas iron on which the oval areas are the only
remnants of the crystal faces; middle, chondrule with veinlets of rock glass ..."
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