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Definition: THINOLITE |
THINOLITENoun1. A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada. |
Etymology: Thinolite \Thin"o*lite\, noun. [from Greek expression shore -lite.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Mining | A tufa deposit of fibrous calcite pseudomorphous after an unknown precursor occurring on an enormous scale in northwestern Nevada; also occurs about Mono Lake, CA. It forms layers of interlaced pale yellow or light brown crystals, commonly skeletal with pyramidal terminations.Syn:thinolitic tufa. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-l-n-o-t-t" | |
-2 letters: hotline, intitle, neolith. | |
-3 letters: entoil, eolith, ethion, iolite, litten, toilet, tonlet. | |
-4 letters: elint, eloin, helio, helot, hotel, inlet, lento, lithe, litho, lotte, nihil, olein, teloi, tenth, thein, thine, thiol, thole, tilth, tithe, title, toile. | |
-5 letters: elhi, enol, heil, helo, hent, hili, hilt, hint, hole, holt, hone, inti, into, leno, lent, lien, line, lino, lint. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-l-n-o-t-t" | |
+3 letters: silhouetting. | |
+4 letters: fortnightlies. | |
+5 letters: epithelization, monotheistical, rehabilitation, thermalization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 48 49 4E 4F 4C 49 54 45 |
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