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Webster 1913 Edition


Pearlstone

{

Pearl′ite

,

Pearl′stoneˊ

, }
Noun.
(Min.)
A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under
Perlitic
.

Definition 2024


pearlstone

pearlstone

English

Noun

pearlstone (countable and uncountable, plural pearlstones)

  1. (mineralogy) perlite