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CRISTOBALITE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cristobalite" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "cristobalite"):
silica; silicon dioxide; silicon oxide (a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite)
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