1) Arrowhead material 2) Auto-making city 3) Automobile manufacturing 4) Beautiful stone 5) City northwest of Detroit 6) City in the USA 7) City of Michigan 8) City in the United States 9) City in the Americas 10) City of the USA 11) City in Michigan 12) City of the US 13) City of the United States
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1) City 2) Firestone 3) Flintstone 4) Gunflint
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• (n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. • (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel. • (n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly m...
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city, seat (1836) of Genesee county, eastern Michigan, U.S. It lies along the Flint River, 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Detroit. It originated in ...
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(from the article `chert and flint`) very fine-grained quartz (q.v.), a silica mineral with minor impurities. Several varieties are included under the general term chert: jasper, ... ...remains of radiolarians settle to the ocean floor and form radiolarian ooze. When the ocean bottom is lifted and transformed into land, the ooze ... ...
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Compact, hard, brittle mineral (a variety of chert), brown, black, or grey in colour, found as nodules in limestone or shale deposits. It consists of cryptocrystalline (grains too small to be...
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Flint is a glassy stone, which was commonly used in the prehistoric periods to make tools, such as microliths. In the Post-Medieval period gun-flints were made. It can be easily shaped by knocking it against other stone, bone or wood. The earliest flint tools were made in the Palaeolithic, but most flint tools were made in the Mesolithic and Neolit...
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a pure form of silica found in clay, but most frequently in the chalk deposits of south east England. Very hard and easily split, it has long been used as a building material, only dying out as brick became more widely available. A product of glacial action, flints are usually small and roun...
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1. <chemical> A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in colour usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel. ... 2. A piece of flint for striking fire; formerly much used, especially. In the hammers of gun locks. ... 3. Anything extremely ha...
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A maize (
Zea mays indurata) having usually rounded kernels with a hard outer layer.
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A quartz with a high silica content that produces a conchoidal fracture when chipped. It is usually found in association with chalk, limestone, and other rock deposits which contain lime. It commonly occurs in small ovoid nodules as well as in larger veins. Impure flint is known as chert, which varies widely as to texture, color, grain, and knappin......
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a type of stone favored for making stone tools because of its ability to fracture (like glass) in predictable and controllable ways
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Flint noun [ Anglo-Saxon
flint , akin to Swedish
flinta , Danish
flint ; confer Old High German
flins flint, German
flinte gun (cf. English
flint lock), perhaps akin to Greek ... brick. Confer
Plinth .]
1. (Min.) A massive, somewhat imp...
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A popular name for darkcolored chert (cryptocrystalline quartz).
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Flint is a massive compact variety of quartz comprised of fine grained silica. It is usually grey to brown or nearly black in colour and breaks with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is amorphous, and usually occurs in nodules or rounded lumps. Its surface is generally uneven, and covered with a whitish rind or crust, the result of weatherin...
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Dense, fine-grained, naturally occurring form of silica that fractures conchoidally.
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Calcined and powdered silica. Used in earthenware bodies.
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Chalcedony
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French name for flint; see there. Flintstone Designation for the positive taste impression of a wine in the context of a wine address. This flavour is attributed to dry wines grown on soils with a... Full text
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Compact, hard, brittle mineral (a variety of chert), brown, black, or grey in colour, found as nodules in limestone or shale deposits. It consists of cryptocrystalline (grains too small to be visible even under a light microscope) silica, SiO
2, principally in the crystalline form of quartz. Implements fashioned from flint wer...
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a type of stone used to make tools, especially blades.
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A variety of chert , often black because of included organic matter.
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A rock composed of the cryptocrystalline form of silica. In Britain it is often associated with Chalk.
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a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous. · a piece of this, esp. as used for striking fire. · a chunk of this used as a primitive tool or as the core from which such a tool was struck. · something very hard or unyielding. · a small piece of metal, usually an iron allo...
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Flint is an English name for boys. The meaning is `Stream` The name Flint is most commonly given to Dutch boys. (9 times more often than to American boys.) The name sounds like: Valente, Wyland
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