Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or having the nature or appearance of chalcedony. Also spelled
calcedonic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to chalcedony.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
chalcedony .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The smile survives into an evil leer of chalcedonic thin, translucent grey, and the moment flies away.
The Moment Flies Away Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
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The smile survives into an evil leer of chalcedonic thin, translucent grey, and the moment flies away.
Archive 2007-06-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
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But Prof. Stonehenge was right too; it was a stone of the chalcedonic family, resembling sardonyx, except in color; others, similar to it both in a natural state and wrought into arrow-heads, had been found along the shores of Lake Superior.
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All drill holes bottomed in strong chalcedonic alteration and quartz veining.
unknown title 2011
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A chalcedonic infiltration gradually entered from above; and, instead of coating over the walls, roof, and floor, it hardened into a group of spear-like stalactites, that lengthened by slow degrees, till some of them had traversed the entire cavity from top to bottom.
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Here was a vesicle filled with green earth, -- there a vesicle filled with calcareous spar, -- yonder a vesicle crusted round on a thin chalcedonic shell with rock-crystal, -- in one cavity an agate had been elaborated, in another a heliotrope, in a third
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The veins are classified epithermal quartz-adularia-sericite type and consist fundamentally of quartz, chalcedonic quartz, minor chalcedony and local pseudomorf quartz after the calcite blade.
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In the most superficial level, there are veins of chalcedonic quartz and quartz with granoblastic texture and occasional coarse crossings, less chalcedony of coloform texture and local pseudomorf quartz after the calcite blade.
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In some locations at Tinco, hydrothermal breccias with chalcedonic, granular and vuggy silica clasts and locally abundant limonite have been observed.
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In some locations at Tinco, hydrothermal breccias with chalcedonic, granular and vuggy silica clasts and locally abundant limonite have been observed.
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