"rock flour" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: rock flours [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} rock flour (countable and uncountable, plural rock flours)
  1. Fine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or artificially. Wikipedia link: rock flour Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Rocks Synonyms: glacial flour, stonemeal Related terms: glacial milk

Inflected forms

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