Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stony meteorite that contains no chondrules.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A meteoric stone, or aërolite, containing little or no iron and essentially free from chondrules. See
meteorite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a stony meteor lacking chondrules.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
stony meteorite that contains nochondrules
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stony meteor lacking chondrules
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Examples
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In her journal that day, she noted that, “we found an unusual achondrite.”
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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In her journal that day, she noted that, “we found an unusual achondrite.”
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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Field image of the achondrite meteorite GRA 06128, found in blue ice of the Graves Nunatak region of the Antarctica during the ANSMET 2006 / 2007 field-season.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2009
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Field image of the achondrite meteorite GRA 06128, found in blue ice of the Graves Nunatak region of the Antarctica during the ANSMET 2006 / 2007 field-season.
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It is an achondrite - a basalt - with a composition that suggest an asteroid from the inner asteroid belt. "
Scientific Blogging 2009
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