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ˈkɒn draɪtchon·drite

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. chondritenoun

    a rock of meteoric origin containing chondrules

Wiktionary

  1. chondritenoun

    A meteorite consisting of rock containing chondrules

Wikipedia

  1. Chondrite

    A chondrite is a stony (non-metallic) meteorite that has not been modified, by either melting or differentiation of the parent body. They are formed when various types of dust and small grains in the early Solar System accreted to form primitive asteroids. Some such bodies that are captured in the planet's gravity well become the most common type of meteorite by (whether quickly, or after many orbits) arriving on a trajectory toward the planet's surface. Estimates for their contribution to the total meteorite population vary between 85.7% and 86.2%.Their study provides important clues for understanding the origin and age of the Solar System, the synthesis of organic compounds, the origin of life and the presence of water on Earth. One of their characteristics is the presence of chondrules (from the Ancient Greek χόνδρος chondros, grain), which are round grains formed as molten, or partially molten droplets, in the space by distinct minerals, that normally constitute between 20% and 80% of a chondrite by volume.Chondrites can be differentiated from iron meteorites due to their low iron and nickel content. Other non-metallic meteorites, achondrites, which lack chondrules, were formed more recently. There are currently over 27,000 chondrites in the world's collections. The largest individual stone ever recovered, weighing 1770 kg, was part of the Jilin meteorite shower of 1976. Chondrite falls range from single stones to extraordinary showers consisting of thousands of individual stones. An instance of the latter occurred in the Holbrook fall of 1912, in which an estimated 14,000 stones grounded in northern Arizona.

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  1. chondrite

    A chondrite is a type of stony meteorite which has not been modified due to melting or differentiation of the parent body. It is characterized by the presence of chondrules, which are round grains formed by extremely rapid heating and cooling of solid dust in space before the formation of planets. Chondrites are the most common type of meteorite that fall to Earth and provide valuable insights into the origins of our solar system.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Chondritenoun

    a meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules

  2. Etymology: [Gr. cho`ndros a grain (of wheat or spelt), cartilage.]

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  1. Chondrite

    Chondrites are stony meteorites that have not been modified due to melting or differentiation of the parent body. They are formed when various types of dust and small grains that were present in the early solar system accreted to form primitive asteroids. They are the most common type of meteorite that falls to Earth with estimates for the proportion of the total fall that they represent varying between 85.7% and 86.2%. Their study provides important clues for understanding the origin and age of the Solar System, the synthesis of organic compounds, the origin of life or the presence of water on Earth. One of their characteristics is the presence of chondrules, which are round grains formed by distinct minerals, that normally constitute between 20% and 80% of a chrondrite by volume. Chondrites can be differentiated from iron meteorites due to their low iron and nickel content. Other non-metallic meteorites, achondrites, which lack chrondrules, were formed more recently. There are currently over 27,000 chondrites in the world's collections. The largest individual stone ever recovered, weighing 1770 kg, was part of the Jilin meteorite shower of 1976. Chondrite falls range from single stones to extraordinary showers consisting of thousands of individual stones, as occurred in the Holbrook fall of 1912, where an estimated 14,000 stones rained down on northern Arizona.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of chondrite in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of chondrite in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of chondrite in a Sentence

  1. Scott Sandford:

    This sort of spectral matching is a way to identify an unknown, good spectral matches suggest possible identifications, while bad matches eliminate them. Most of the spectra are dominated by minerals that are consistent with the identification of this meteorite as a carbonaceous chondrite.

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