stony meteorite

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noun

any of various meteorites composed mainly of rock-forming silicates, especially olivine, plagioclase, and pyroxene, and classified as achondrites or chondrites.

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For example, a common type of meteorite has similar mineral content to Earth, but a lot less deuterium.
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Faced with a moping, stony-faced new partner, Beth did not selflessly set aside her own pain to help.
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It exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.
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Rey, after sitting for long hours in stony silence, eventually gave the police her last name.
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But how many of them remember the CNN host who asked whether the Russian meteorite had been caused by global warming?
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Why didn't he send a trooper to report at once instead of wasting time in going to Stony Crossing?
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It took us all of the next day to make the trip to Stony Crossing and back by way of the place where Rutter was buried.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
It ended in a broad open moor, stony; and full of damp boggy hollows, forlorn and desolate under the autumn sky.
The Daisy Chain|Charlotte Yonge
The tones of the neighbouring convent bell, echoing through the stony vaults, sounded loud and awful as the knell of doom.
The Catacombs of Rome|William Henry Withrow
Why did he quit the fruitful banks of the Euphrates for a spot so remote, so barren, and so stony as Sichem?
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British Dictionary definitions for stony meteorite

stony meteorite

noun

a meteorite composed mainly of silicates

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stony meteorite

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