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- adjective Pertaining to, or characteristic of a
nonchondrite
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a 2005 study in Science showed that early differentiation-the separation of a planetary body into layers such as crust and mantle-less than 30 million years after Earth had formed could account for ancient rocks with nonchondritic compositions.
Scientific American 2010
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