ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Marekanite

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Marekanite is a noun meaning An Apache tear (obsidian nodule).

Meaning

An Apache tear (obsidian nodule).

More Meanings

  1. The material which such nodules consist of.

Example Sentences

Marekanites are often found as embedded remnants within perlite.
Marekanite balls from Corinto in Nicaragua are described; they are about the size of hazel-nuts, and black, with vitreous lustre.
But the nature of marekanite is now well understood. It is the perlitic or subpumiceous modification of a glassy rhyolitic rock in situ on […]

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Related dictionary entries include banakite, mijakite, akerite, microtektite, miaskite, unakite.

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