nodule

Examples

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• Lifting another large piece of basalt, she brings it down onto the nodule several times, striking off many pieces.

  Academic text (2002)

• After almost an hour, Sokate picks up a small nodule of chert.

  Academic text (2002)

• Excavations showed ridges built predominantly of chert nodules and clasts.

  Academic text (2002)

• The rocks were coal black, like magnesium nodules, but these had jagged edges, like congealed shards of glass.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Rheumatoid arthritis is a multi-system disease. One of the most common extra-articular manifestations of RA is the rheumatoid nodule.

  Academic text (2007)

• A glassy nodule entrained in alkali basalt, Kula, Turkey (previously described by Holness et al. 2005).

  Academic text (2018)

• The furious waves would pound road, rock, walls, and roof to nothing, leaving only the indestructible nodules of gray flint, strewn on the beach to be used as the waves' ammunition for the next attack against the cliff.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The scientist discovered a small nodule of coal embedded in the sedimentary rock.

• Geologists studied the nodule formed from a mixture of minerals found during their excavation.

• After inspecting the soil sample, they noted several nodules of iron ore among the gravel.

Synonyms

B

bump

vsnodule

118 2.5

A raised swelling on the body after a hit

is formed naturally inside rock rather than caused by an external impact

L

lump

vsnodule

77 2.0

A small solid piece of something without a regular shape

is a small rounded hardened mineral mass typically found in rock formations

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology