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Definition of Exines
1. exine [n] - See also: exine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exines
Literary usage of Exines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin: Mining and Metallurgical Investigations by Carnegie Institute of Technology, Mining Advisory Board (1922)
"SPORE-exines. Every coal contains a smaller or larger number of ... Spore-exines
are merely the shells, or outer walls, or coverings of spores. ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Mines (1916)
"Coals from certain beds contain a type of spore-exines that is predominant in or
characteristic of that bed, or both. Even a casual examination of the ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"Under medium enlargement, the coal is a dark, homogeneous mass, in which are
embedded resinous particles, dark and light, with some large spore exines and ..."
4. Formation of Coal Beds by John James Stevenson (1913)
"The cannels studied by him are composed almost wholly of spore-exines with resins
and cuticles in limited quantity. The so-called binding material in the ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1921)
"In many shales, spore-exines form the largest part of the organic matter; in
others, spore-exines and plant degradation matter are present in about equal ..."
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