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noun

Firestone n.

Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.

A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.

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Etymology of 'Firestone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... series. The higher portion of the Chloritic series in some districts has been called chloritic marl, from its consisting of a chalky marl with chloritic grains. In parts of Surrey, where calcareous matter is largely intermixed with sand, it forms a stone called malm-rock or firestone. In the cliffs of the southern coast of the Isle of Wight it contains bands of calcareous limestone with ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

Words linked to "Firestone" : flint