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Meanings of igneous in inglés

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Produced under conditions involving intense heat; especially from molten magma"

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        Produced by the action of fire or intense heat.

            ígneo

            Like or suggestive of fire.

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                  Examples for "fiery"
                  1
                  The comments stood in contrast to his fiery rhetoric in previous days.
                  Reuters
                  2
                  The amendment was put to vote, after a fiery debate, and lost.
                  Sketches New and Old
                  3
                  Three men once sang in the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
                  The Young Carpenters of Freiberg / A Tale of the Thirty Years' W...
                  4
                  The stallion was restless and fiery-eyed; the bull sent forth a bellow.
                  1492
                  5
                  The mist of fiery opal swirled up about the Three; hid them.
                  The Moon Pool
                  Usage of igneous in inglés
                  1
                  Heat as an agent in volcanic phenomena, igneous eruptions, metamorphism, veins, etc.
                  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 / A Magazin...
                  2
                  Holocrystalline plutonic igneous rocks composed essentially of hornblende are known as hornblendites.
                  The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
                  3
                  There are submarine mud volcanoes as well as those of igneous kind.
                  The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
                  4
                  Sitting in the premier stone division is an igneous stone -granite.
                  The Irish Times
                  5
                  Their gaseous foundation there would be as firm as igneous rock here.
                  Ancient and Modern Physics
                  6
                  Our study suggests a new mechanism for the formation of large igneous provinces.
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                  7
                  It was built on an elevated mass of igneous rock several miles wide.
                  Anathem
                  8
                  Traces of it are found in practically all igneous and most sedimentary rocks.
                  Commercial Geography / A Book for High Schools, Commercial Cours...
                  9
                  This igneous matter diminishes in his old age-ittotally dissipates at his death.
                  The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical Wor...
                  10
                  She appeared to attach some sort of igneous power to the human eye.
                  Some Private Views
                  11
                  Note.- Ialsofind that the formation is igneous, prehistoric and erroneous.
                  Remarks
                  12
                  Albite forms an essential constituent of many acidic igneous and FIG.
                  The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
                  13
                  An interesting and orderly petrological sequence of Tertiary igneous rocks has been determined.
                  The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
                  14
                  Upon the shore he found an out-cropping of brittle, igneous rock.
                  The Beasts of Tarzan
                  15
                  The rock has been derived by dynamic metamorphism from a basic igneous rock.
                  The Long Labrador Trail
                  16
                  Thus, granite is an igneous, intrusive rock; lava is an igneous, extrusive rock.
                  Let's Collect Rocks and Shells
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