Meaning of marekanite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An Apache tear (obsidian nodule).
   countable, uncountable
2. The material which such nodules consist of.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Marekanite balls from Corinto in Nicaragua are described; they are about the size of hazel-nuts, and black, with vitreous lustre.”

“Marekanites are often found as embedded remnants within perlite.”

“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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