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n. - A stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals.

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Usage examples (31)
  • “Albatross,” so that she might have been taken for a flaming aerolite.
  • I know of no aerolite that has ever been acceptably traced to terrestrial origin.
  • It appeared to me a common aerolite covered with a thick slaggy coating, glossy and pitch-like, worn and polished.
  • Are not the stones in Hodge's wall as good as the aerolite at Mecca?
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