chondriticadj.
/kɒnˈdrɪtɪk/ Mineralogy.
Characterized by granular structure; of or pertaining to chondrites.
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chondritic1866
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [adjective] > meteorite
stony1802
meteorolitic1824
aerolitic1850
siderolithic1857
meteoritic1865
chondritic1866
oligosideric1881
meteorital1889
stony-iron1918
micrometeoritic1958
nakhlitic1963
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > texture or colour > [adjective] > texture > round inclusions
orbicular1824
chondritic1866
phacoidal1901
oncolitic1933
1866 Times 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.
1896 L. 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.
1896 L. Fletcher Introd. Study Meteorites 36 About eleven out of every twelve of the stony meteorites belong to a division to which Rose has given the name of Chondritic.
1914 Brit. Mus.: Return 223 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 186) LXXI. 193 Chondritic meteorites.
1922 Chambers's Jrnl. 126/2 The ‘stones’..have a structure called ‘chondritic’, utterly unknown among terrestrial substances.
1956 Nature 28 Jan. 156/2 The identification of the Earth's mantle with chondritic meteorites is now thoroughly discredited.
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