lithic

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Lastly, Islam views the world as a duo-lithic structure of the House of Peace and the House of War.

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  1. adjective Consisting of or relating to stone or rock.
  2. adjective Of or relating to lithium.

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  • To be sure, they had the pieces analyzed by lithic experts.
  • Instead, we calculate that the postboundary pCO (2) rise is most consistent with the instantaneous transfer of approximate to 4,600 Gt C from the lithic to the atmospheric reservoir by a large extraterrestrial bolide impact. —  RealClimate
  • The recent discovery of dwelling structures and lithic implements at Fumane Cave in northeastern Italy redraws this scenario and depicts at 33.4 k. yr. —  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog
  • Lastly, Islam views the world as a duo-lithic structure of the House of Peace and the House of War. —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
  • We can't turn a stone into water because we "socially construct" the lithic as the aqueous. —  In the Middle
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  1. from Greek λιθικός, of or for stones, from λίθος, a stone (a substance), stone (a disease), etc.; no cognate forms appear in other languages. Hence -lith, -lite, in English words.
  2. from lithium + -ic.
 

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