pierre à briquet

Definitions of pierre à briquet
  1. noun
    a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
    synonyms: pierre à feu, silex
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    silice
    a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
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