chondrule

American  

[kon-drool] / ˈkɒn drul /

noun

1. a small round mass of olivine or pyroxene found in stony meteorites.

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chondrule British  

/ ˈkɒndruːl /

noun

1. one of the small spherical masses of mainly silicate minerals present in chondrites

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chondrule Scientific  

/ kŏn′dro̅o̅l /

1. A small round granule of olivine or pyroxene occurring in many stony meteorites. Chondrules are thought to have formed from the condensation of hot gases in the solar system.

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Etymology

Origin of chondrule

First recorded in 1885–90; chondr- + -ule

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Example Sentences

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chondrule

“We can build a story about how planets form without ever invoking chondrule formation,” says Ciesla.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2020

“I think that would be shocking to the chondrule community,” says Herbst, overturning any already precarious consensus.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2020

Most chondrule scientists fall into one of two camps.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2020

In the future, we should also be able to better probe the distribution of dust around young stars with higher resolution images, letting us possibly refine some models of chondrule formation.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2020

Then he ground the remainder and purified a sample of meteor material until it was free of chondrule fragments.

From Time Magazine Archive

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