CHONDRITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chondrite mean? 

• CHONDRITE (noun)
  The noun CHONDRITE has 1 sense:

1. a rock of meteoric origin containing chondrules

  Familiarity information: CHONDRITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHONDRITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rock of meteoric origin containing chondrules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("chondrite" is a kind of...):

rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)

Meronyms (parts of "chondrite"):

chondrule (small granule (of e.g. chrysolite) found in some meteoric rocks)

Derivation:

chondritic (having a granular structure like that of chondrites)

 Context examples 

Researchers found that the meteorites containing cyanide belong to a group of carbon-rich meteorites called CM chondrites.

(Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life, NASA)

Hin's team analyzed rocks from Earth using a mass spectrometer, and compared their chemical ingredients with off-world sources: meteorite chondrites (space rocks) plus samples from Mars and the asteroid Vesta.

(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Ceres shares many commonalities with meteorites rich in water and organics — in particular, a meteorite group called carbonaceous chondrites.

(Dawn Discovers Evidence for Organic Material on Ceres, NASA)

In the new work at Goddard's Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, Smith and her team analyzed samples from eight different carbon-rich meteorites, called CM-2 type carbonaceous chondrites and found vitamin B3 at levels ranging from about 30 to 600 parts-per-billion.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)