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NODULAR [1 record]

Record 1 2006-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Various Metal Ores
DEF

Having the shape of or composed of nodules.

CONT

Blue ore may be friable to crumbly or nodular, or hard coherent and lumpy ...

CONT

Phosphorites may be pelletal, nodular, or structureless ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
DEF

Qui comporte des nodules ou qui renferme des constituants en forme de nodules.

CONT

Le minerai de fer bleu peut être soit friable à granulaire ou noduleux, ou bien encore, cohérent, dur et grumeleux [...]

CONT

Les phosphorites peuvent être en boulettes, en nodules, ou dépourvues de structure [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
  • Minerales varios (Minas metálicas)
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