RETICULITE

Domain	Definition
Geological	During the exceptionally high fountaining episodes of some eruptions, an extremely vesicular, feathery light pumice, called reticulite or thread-lace scoria, can form and be carried many miles downwind from the high lava fountains. Even though reticulite is the least dense kind of tephra, it does not float on water, because its vesicles are open and interconnected. Consequently, when it falls on water, it becomes easily waterlogged and sinks. (Tilling, Heliker, and Wright, 1987). (references)
Mining	An extremely attenuate pyroclastic rock consisting of glass threads which join a series of points forming a polyhedral space lattice. It is formed from pumice by the collapse of the walls of adjacent vesicles and the retraction of the liquid into threads which form the perimeters of the former polygonal faces. The threads are usually of triangular cross section, indicating chilling, before rounding could take place. Such rock has generally been known by Dana's name, thread-lace scoria.See also:thread-lace scoria. (references)
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Anagrams: RETICULITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-l-r-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: reticule.
	-3 letters: clutter, cuittle, curette, eucrite, lecture, lettuce, leucite, reticle, retitle, tiercel, utricle.
	-4 letters: ceiler, cerite, curite, cutler, cutlet, cutter, cuttle, elicit, letter, litter, luetic, recite, relict, reluct, retile, rutile, tercel, tercet, tierce, tilter, turtle, uretic.
	-5 letters: citer, creel, cruel, cruet, culet, culti, curet, curie, cuter, cutie, elect, elite, elute, erect, eruct, icier, licit.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-l-r-t-t-u"
	+3 letters: trinucleotide.
	+4 letters: indestructible, interfaculties, trinucleotides, ultraefficient.
	+5 letters: interlacustrine, internucleotide.
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