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Meanings of igneous in inglês
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ígneo Produced under conditions involving intense heat; especially from molten magma"
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Examples for "fiery"
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The comments stood in contrast to his fiery rhetoric in previous days.
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The amendment was put to vote, after a fiery debate, and lost.
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Three men once sang in the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
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The stallion was restless and fiery-eyed; the bull sent forth a bellow.
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The mist of fiery opal swirled up about the Three; hid them.
Usage of igneous in inglês
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Heat as an agent in volcanic phenomena, igneous eruptions, metamorphism, veins, etc.
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Holocrystalline plutonic igneous rocks composed essentially of hornblende are known as hornblendites.
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There are submarine mud volcanoes as well as those of igneous kind.
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Sitting in the premier stone division is an igneous stone -granite.
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Their gaseous foundation there would be as firm as igneous rock here.
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Our study suggests a new mechanism for the formation of large igneous provinces.
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It was built on an elevated mass of igneous rock several miles wide.
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Traces of it are found in practically all igneous and most sedimentary rocks.
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This igneous matter diminishes in his old age-ittotally dissipates at his death.
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She appeared to attach some sort of igneous power to the human eye.
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Note.- Ialsofind that the formation is igneous, prehistoric and erroneous.
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Albite forms an essential constituent of many acidic igneous and FIG.
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An interesting and orderly petrological sequence of Tertiary igneous rocks has been determined.
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Upon the shore he found an out-cropping of brittle, igneous rock.
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The rock has been derived by dynamic metamorphism from a basic igneous rock.
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Thus, granite is an igneous, intrusive rock; lava is an igneous, extrusive rock.
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