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Quartzite

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Noun

1. quartzite

hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Quartzite

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noun
1. 
a very hard metamorphic rock consisting of a mosaic of intergrown quartz crystals
2. 
a white or grey sandstone composed of quartz

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Quartzite

see synonyms of quartzite
noun
1. 
a very hard, metamorphic sandstone so firmly cemented that breakage occurs through grains rather than between them
2. 
any sandstone tightly cemented with quartz

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Quartzite

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n.
A rock formed from the metamorphism of quartz sandstone.

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