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Hornstone

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Horn´stone`

n.

1.

(Min.) A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; - called also chert.

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hornstone - a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks

metamorphic rock - rock altered by pressure and heat

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