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claystone: A compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
Category: Management in the public and private sector

cutstone: a stone that is cut or finished accurately to definite shape and size; thick-bedded, evenly grained rock which can be easily cut in any direction and dressed for masonry; is generally sandstone, but some limestones are freestones
Category: Building industry

flag-stone: flat-stone slabs used for floorings or pavings
Category: Building industry

freestone: any fine-grained sandstone or limestone that can be readily sawn or worked
Category: The cosmos

freestone: stones granular in structure,with no planes of cleavage,and therefore no tendency to split in a direction,and for that reason useful for carved work
Category: Building industry

grindstone: a cylindrical rotating body made of artificial or natural stone(usually sandstone)and intended for the grinding of wood
Category: Various industries and crafts

hailstone: globule or piece of ice, with a diameter varying between 5 and 50 mm or even more, the fall of which constitutes hail.
Category: The cosmos

hornstone: a mineral consisting of a variety of quartz much like flint but more brittle
Category: Chemistry

ironstone: continuous hardpan as a result of incrustation of tropical soil by ferric oxide and aluminium dehydratation
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

ironstone: rock whose mineral grains are cemented by ion oxide.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

limestone: a) a stratified rock consisting principally of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate); b) stone quarried from a limestone rock; rock consisting of calcium carbonate
Category: Chemistry

limestone: (see flux) the most common flux, calcium carbonate.
Category: General

milestone: a scheduled event for which some project member or manager is held accountable and that is used to measure progress; for example, a formal review, issuance of a specification, product delivery
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

milestone: a means of measuring how well one is on track towards meeting an objective. It is like a short-term assessment criterion. It is helpful to use milestones to measure progress where e.g. a large project is being undertaken. (The English word `milestone` comes from the stones which used to mark distance along a road before the days of cars.)
Category: Management in the public and private sector

oilstone: specially fine-grain stone or slate
Category: Mining

padstone: concrete block built into the top of the wall to support roof steelwork
Category: Building industry

sandstone: rock of sedimentary origin composed of small quartzose or siliceous particles naturally agglomerated by calcareous or siliceous materials
Category: Chemistry

soapstone: powdered soft stone used to reduce tackiness of rubber to keep tires from sticking to molds during curing. Also used as lubricant to prevent sticking between tire and tube
Category: Various industries and crafts

soapstone: a soft stone having a soapy feel and composed essentially of talc, chlorite, and often some magnetite compare steatite.
Category: The cosmos

soapstone: type of steatite, sometimes containing chloritic minerals .
Category: Iron and steel industries

stone: a rock-like concretion in timber composed mainly of CaCO3,found occasionally in a few tropical species,particularly Iroko(Chlorophora excelsa)
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

stone: colour:light kaki grey
Category: The chemical industry

stone: a crystalline inclusion
Category: Various industries and crafts

stone: automatic 50 stone smoking kiln [VE1]
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

stone: the stone,also called rock or granite,is round,highly polished,and weights from about 40 to a maximum of 44 pounds.
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

stone-removing: machine similar to a harrow but fitted with hooked teeth set in two rows converging towards an open-slatted container
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

stoned: Completely under the influence of drugs;intoxicated
Category: General

stonefish: Venomous marine fish of the genus Synanceja verrucosa,found in the tropical Indo-Pacific.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

stonegall: a clay concretion found in certain sandstones
Category: The cosmos

stoneware: some sanitary fittings made from plastic clays of the lias formation,with a small amount of sand,etc.,added to reduce shrinkage
Category: Building industry

stoneware: a vitreous, but opaque type of ceramic ware...-- is produced...chiefly as a cooking-ware and some tableware
Category: Various industries and crafts

tombstone: an advertisement which announces that a credit has been arranged or a bond issue made
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

Wheatstone: a four-arm measuring bridge intended to measure the value of a resistor which forms one of the arms,the other three arms being resistors,at least one of which is adjustable
Category: Standards, measures and testing

Wheatstone: Wheatstone bridge:a bridge for measuring electrical resistances that consists of a conductor joining two tranches of a circuit
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

Wheatstone: a Morse system in which signals are transmitted automatically using a previously prepared perforated tape,and recorded automatically either in the form of a perforated tape for automatic printing or in the form of an inked tape for translation by an operator
Category: News-systems and communications

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