"Schist" is a word in ENGLISH
Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see
Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates.
The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting
chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.
And I thought, y’know, I mean…this is crazy. I mean, the only thing that determines what country you belong to is where you happened to be born? What is a country, anyway? It’s not, y’know, “purple mountain’s majesty” or “fruited plains,” whatever the hell that means. I mean, America isn’t a place, it’s an ideal. It could happen in the Sahara Desert and still be America. For that matter, I’m the child of immigrants. My father’s lived and worked in this country for the past three decades. And he’s somehow more or less American than some redneck who uses Osama bin Laden for toilet paper? How the hell do you measure something like that?
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Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
Read the complete definitionPartaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of …
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