Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, Lydian stone, a black or dark-colored compact, hard rock composed of minute grains of quartz with carbonaceous matter. It was used by the ancients as a touchstone for testing gold.
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Examples
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Some of the fuses of yesterday's shells have been dug up to-day, and we find from the brilliant orange colour on these that lydite had been used, in some of the shells at least.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson
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_ -- The statement that the Turks used gas the other day now turns out to be false, it was ordinary lydite the Lancs. mistook for one of the new fangled German devices.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson
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In fact, there's a fairly thoughtful discussion about this series in the Icke forum, which contains useful links to further information (on the second page of the discussion) about such things as the types of media used to create the sculptures and tools unearthed by archaeologists - like, what's lydite, eh?
YayaCanada yayacanada 2010
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