Felsite

Word FELSITE
Character 7
Hyphenation fel site
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Definitions and meanings of "Felsite"

What do we mean by felsite?

A fine-grained, light-colored igneous rock, composed chiefly of feldspar and quartz. noun

A compact, very hard rock, almost flinty in texture. made up of quartz and orthoclase feldspar intimately mixed. noun

A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz. noun

A fine grained volcanic extrusive rock, generally light in color, composed of felsic minerals. noun

Any light-colored volcanic rock whose true mineralogy is not yet determined. noun

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A felsite is a type of rock. This rock had gotten so hot that the uglyness now dominates. Rocks don't have many friends, but the few that felsite seems to have are as heartless as the other rocks that exist in the universe. Already from when felsite was a tiny drip of lava, felsite dreamed of being a asteroid in space. Unfortunately felsite is a rock on earth that can't really go to space. He can't move at all actually. Urban Dictionary

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The word "felsite" in example sentences

The reason I wanted to see this beach is because the book said that if, conditions were right, the sound of the waves hitting this unique shoreline of flat, shingle-like “pink rhyolite and felsite bedrock” makes a tinkling, bell-like sound. ❋ Lyda222 (2010)

It exists in a felsite dyke immediately on the coast. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The lode is a large irregular one of pure arsenical pyrites, existing in a felsite dike near the sea coast. ❋ Various (N/A)

Trachyte — A variety of felsite superficially closely resembling rhyolite. ❋ Unknown (1937)

The radium-bearing minerals are torbernite and autunite (hydrous copper-uranium and calcium-uranium phosphates), and are found in dark felsite dikes near their intersections with east-west gold-silver-quartz veins. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The blocks were lava and hard felsite, measuring one and a half to three feet. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

The stones themselves were felsite, which abounds in the locality. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

We found, besides, a few cores of felsite and some shapeless flakes and several fragments of large metates. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

The rough felsite blocks of which they were composed were surprisingly large, considering the diminutive size of the cabins. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

The designs were rudely pecked on the moderately smooth felsite cliffs on a nearly perpendicular wall in the foot-hills, about forty feet above the bed of the arroyo, or gulch. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

The building material here is a close-grained felsite, and huge fragments of it have been used in the construction of the parapets. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

From this place to the mines the rocks were soft decomposing dolerites, with many harder bands of felsite, and, occasionally, plains composed of more recent trachytic lavas. ❋ Thomas Belt (1855)

The final 1.8 m of the zone is in a green carbonate body that is in contact with the felsite averaging 8.1 g / t Au. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Oh look, dad! There is a cool [rock on] [the ground]!" "Throw that away, son! It's a [felsite]" "AAAAAAAH" ❋ Toemasje (2022)

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