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Meaning of tectita



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

tectita
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It is a term used in mineralogy and geology. In Greek it means fused. It is the driest mineral known. It is actually natural glass, usually formed by the impact of large meteorites.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Also tektite . From the Greek tektos, melted, melted. Mineral crystallized surely by the high temperatures of meteorite impacts on earth millions of years ago. A special type of tektite is the green moldavite, present in the basin of the Vltava River in southern Bohemia, to which they also attribute therapeutic virtues.

  










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