(noun.) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt).
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双语例句
The result was an intermediate substance, neither glass nor whinstone--a sort of slag. 李贝.西洋科学史.
He later enclosed some fragments of whinstone in a black-lead crucible and subjected it to intense heat in the reverberating furnace of an iron foundry. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Hall next experimented with lava f rom Vesuvius, Etna, Iceland, and elsewhere, and found that it behaved like whinstone. 李贝.西洋科学史.
The result in this case was a perfect whinstone. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Hutton believed that basalt, and the whinstones generally, are of igneous origin. 李贝.西洋科学史.