flint
1. an impure opaque microcrystalline greyish-black form of quartz that occurs in chalk. It produces sparks when struck with steel and is used in the manufacture of pottery, flint glass, and road-construction materials. Formula: SiO2
2. colourless glass other than plate glass
Flint
1. a town in NE Wales, in Flintshire, on the Dee estuary. Pop.: 11 936 (2001)
2. a city in SE Michigan: closure of the car production plants led to a high level of unemployment. Pop.: 120 292 (2003 est.)
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flint
[flint] (mineralogy)
A black or gray, massive, hard, somewhat impure variety of chalcedony, breaking with a conchoidal fracture. Also known as firestone.
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flint
A dense, fine-grained stone; a form of silica; naturally occurs in the form of nodules; usually gray, brown, black, or otherwise dark in color, but nodules and other chunks tend to weather white or light shades from the surface inward. Broken “flints, ” as the nodules are called, are used in cobble size, either whole or split (knapped) in mortared walls, esp. in England.
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Flint
a city in the northern USA, in the state of Michigan. Population, 182,000 (1975; 520,000 including suburbs). Industry employs 85,000 people (1973). A major center of the automobile industry, Flint is the site of several General Motors plants. The city also produces aircraft engines, bicycles, motorcycles, chemicals and military equipment.
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