See also: chért

English

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Etymology

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Unknown.

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Noun

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chert (countable and uncountable, plural cherts)

  1. (geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.
  2. (countable) A flint-like tool made from chert.

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Generally, in mineralogy and geology, a chert does not have a conchoidal fracture. In North American archeology the term chert occasionally is still used for various siliceous minerals (including flint) that have a conchoidal fracture; this leads to confusion between the terms flint and chert in some archeology texts.

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Further reading

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  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Chert”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • chert”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

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Old Irish

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Adjective

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chert

  1. Lenited form of cert.

Noun

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chert

  1. Lenited form of cert.