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UK
/spˈɪnəl/
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NOUN
- a hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones
How To Use spinel In A Sentence
- Only the spineless Liberal Left uses the term wingnut to describe the Right. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- The oral shield is oval to rounded pentagonal with the distal edge fringed by granules or low spinelets.
- In addition to the enstatite, forsterite, and PAHs, they are trying to model their spectra using a library containing dolomite (a carbonate), smectite (a clay), spinel/hibonite, pyrrhotite, iron oxide, and elemental carbon grains.
- A number of the specimens collected were attacked by a parasitic mucor of the genus _Spinellus_. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
- The floor was a mosaic of jacinth, spinel and sunstone. Wild Dreams of Reality, 5
- Even though a prickly pear may be visibly spineless, the glochids on paddles and fruits remain just as nasty.
- Was that spineless blue creature that I spotted by the sea a Tory jellyfish? Times, Sunday Times
- Some of the characteristic minerals found in kimberlite are olivine, pyrope garnet, enstatite, diopside, ilmenite, phlogopite, perovskite, magnetite, and spinel.
- They do not make spineless and uninventive psychedelia.
- Ofelia, who was used to being the boss all the time, would now have to obey every word that was uttered from Stolly - a weak, spineless, cowardly man in her mind.