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chondritic, a. Min.|kɒnˈdrɪtɪk|
[f. prec. + -ic, after G. chondritisch.]
Characterized by granular structure; of or pertaining to chondrites.
1866Times 14 Nov. 4/5 These oolitic, or as Gustav Rose, the great mineralogist of Berlin, has happily termed them, chondritic aerolites, form by far the largest group among the meteoric stones. 1896L. Fletcher Introd. Study Meteorites 35 The stony part of the siderolites and aerolites is almost entirely crystalline, and in most cases presents a peculiar ‘chondritic’ or granular structure, the loosely coherent grains being composed of minerals similar to those which enclose them. 1914Brit. Mus. Return 223 Chondritic meteorites. 1922Chambers's Jrnl. 126/2 The ‘stones’..have a structure called ‘chondritic’, utterly unknown among terrestrial substances. 1956Nature 28 Jan. 156/2 The identification of the Earth's mantle with chondritic meteorites is now thoroughly discredited. |