stinkstonen.
Mineralogy.
A name given to various limestones which give out a fetid odour on being scratched or struck.
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1804 R. Jameson Min. I. 521 Stink Stone... Colour is wood brown.
1823 W. Phillips Elem. Introd. Mineral. (ed. 3) 156 Swinestone, or Stinkstone,..gives out a strong fetid odour when scraped.
1856 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. xii. 141 Others, when rubbed..emit a highly fetid odour, and are well known as ‘stinksteins’ and ‘swinestones’.]
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 451 Stinkstone, swinestone, a variety of carbonate of lime, which emits a fetid odor on being struck.
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