chondriten.
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1. Palaeontology. A fossil marine plant of the chalk and other formations.
2. Mineralogy. [ < German chondrit (G. Rose 1863, in Abh. Akad. Berl. 29), < Greek χόνδρος granule.] A meteorite containing granules.
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1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 112/1 From the small rounded grains that give it this appearance, the name chondrite..has been applied to this kind of meteorite.
1912 J. W. Gregory Making of Earth i. ii. 35 The meteorites with rounded grains (chondrites) have been regarded as due to the fusion of many separate granules into a large mass.
1944 C. Palache et al. Dana's Syst. Mineral. (ed. 7) I. 121 Most of the stony meteorites are made up of chondri or chondrules..of silicate minerals and are therefore classed as chondrites.
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