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Definition of Concretions
1. concretion [n] - See also: concretion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concretions
Literary usage of Concretions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"On the Occurrence of the Nodular concretions (Coal Balls) in the Lower Coal Measures.
By JAMES LOMAX. During the last fourteen or fifteen years that I have ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1856)
"Intestinal concretions.—At the meeting of the Academy of Medicine of Paris, on
the 14th of August, 1855, Mr. CLOQUET placed before that body a series of ..."
3. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1906)
"These concretions are to be found in immense numbers in the Redbank sands of ...
The concretions are most numerous near the upper part of the formation, ..."
4. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1893)
"Alluvial clays sometimes contain fantastically shaped concretions due t<i the
consolidation of the clay by a calcareous or ferruginous cement round a centre ..."
5. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"The commonest concretions are silicious, calcareous, and ferruginous, ...
Among the most familiar examples of silicious concretions are they?r'«/r, ..."
6. The Elements of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1810)
"Of Morbid concretions. Hard substances occasionally make their appearance ...
In the first case they are denominated concretions or ossifications ,• in the ..."
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