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Dictionary » F » Flint FlintFlint 1. (Science: chemical) a massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in colour usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel. 2. A piece of flint for striking fire; formerly much used, especially. In the hammers of gun locks. 3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. A heart of flint. flint age. An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp. Flint stone, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint. Flint wall, a kind of wall, common in England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry. Liquor of flints, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash. To skin a flint, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. Origin: as. Flint, akin to Sw. Flinta, dan. Flint; cf. OHG. Flins flint, g. Flinte gun (cf. E. Flintlock), perh. Akin to gr. Brick. Cf. Plinth. ![]()
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Evolutionary cause of facial hair pattern?... be covered adequately by the rest of the beardage. Although tool use and shaving must have been around for a significant time (like neolithic? flint shaving gear.. ow..) Interesting question though, wonder what sort of localised variation there is to it?
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What type of creature is this?... maggot the long tube coming off the main body is essentailly a snorkel, so that the maggot can breath while underwater problem solved. thanks flint. Too bad we didn't discover a new species :).
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Can some 1 explain this 2 me- birds and bats... for mammals, but still heavier than birds. Mammals also have hair, which unlike a birds feathers, is not condusive to flying. I also agree with flint, in that bats evolved flight much later than birds, and so have not refined it to the degree that birds have.
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zoology as a job I would prefer to do this research outside in the dirt and not inside with test tubes.. Same with me - my professors are always showing slideshows of their research in places like New Zealand, Africa, Scandinavia, and South America and it makes me want to graduate and get into research so much more...
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