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from The Century Dictionary.
- Pencil-slate: used by German geologists to designate certain Lower Silurian slates of Thuringia in Germany which, being intersected by cleavage-planes in two directions, are broken for slate-pencils. They contain some radiolarians (Sphæroidea).
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