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moleña • pedernal • sílex
A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
He used flint to make a fire.
Some of the enormous fragments of chalk which are interstratified with drift have not only layers of undisturbed flints, but also sandpipes in the middle of them, or cylindrical ca…
pedernal
A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
pedernal • piedra
A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
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