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Definition of Conchoidally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conchoidally
Literary usage of Conchoidally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Mineralogy:: Or Coloured Figures Intended to Elucidate the by James Sowerby (1806)
"... although they have a loose appearance, they are so incorporated that they
fracture most like a compact glassy substance, conchoidally and irregularly. ..."
2. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth (1907)
"Although it breaks at rather distant intervals along parallel planes, it fractures
much more often conchoidally. In the thin section this black argillite is ..."
3. Bulletin (1906)
"They consist of dense, very fine-grained, hard, conchoidally-breaking limestone,
which rings when struck with a hammer. This rock is of a light-chocolate ..."
4. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1920)
"The glass rock, the only portion of the underlying Platteville formation known
to contain workable ore, is a dense, hard, conchoidally breaking limestone, ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891)
"... constituent: its color is greenish black and under the ham merit rings sharply
and breaks quite conchoidally. The rock is an altered diabase ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"The glass rock, the only portion of the underlying Platteville formation known
to contain workable ore, is a dense, hard, conchoidally breaking limestone, ..."
7. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1873)
"21, Sycamore, about eighteen inches of similar compact blue limestone may be seen
in the creek, underlain by a blue shale which crumbles conchoidally, ..."
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