How to Use chondrite in a Sentence

chondrite

noun

• Most meteorites are stony, called chondrites, and they can be bought online for as little as $15 per ounce (50 cents per gram).
  — Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• Of the more than 1,000 space rocks that have been found on Earth’s surface, only five are of the this type known as a C.I. chondrite.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2022
• Like the Malibu, the space rock — an H6 chondrite — would not be a Maserati among meteorites.
  — Michael P. McKinney, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2017
• The Winchcombe meteorite is a rare type of carbon-rich rock called a carbonaceous chondrite and the first of its kind ever found in the U.K.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
• Physicist John Remo holds a slice of the Leoville chondrite, a meteorite billions of years old.
  — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2015
• Sure enough, the rock had the oxygen fingerprint of a meteorite, and a rare and old kind, too: a CV3 carbonaceous chondrite.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2014
• The Winchcombe meteorite belongs to a rare class of space rocks known as carbonaceous chondrites.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 25 June 2023
• The one pound of carbonaceous chondrite plowed into the English town of Winchcombe in February 2021.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2022
• While the team hasn’t fully analyzed the new finds, the largest one appears to be an ordinary chondrite, the most common type of space rock, containing lots of metal.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023
• The type of meteorite that produces the fragments that littered Winchcombe was made of carbonaceous chondrite.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 9 Mar. 2021
• The meteorite is classified as a carbonaceous chondrite, which is an rare piece of space debris that’s older than the planets in the solar system.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2021
• The carbonaceous chondrite is divided into six groups based on their bulk chemistry.
  — Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press, 17 Jan. 2018
• The age of the grains in their dust can be identified and dated by their isotopic signatures, and the team compared the Ryugu dust samples to grains found in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites that have been found on Earth.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2022
• The meteorite—a rare type known as a carbonaceous chondrite—may contain complex organic molecules that gave life on Earth a head start.
  — Joel Goldberg, Science | AAAS, 19 Aug. 2020
• Chunks of enstatite chondrite are still around in the solar system, and occasionally fall as meteorites.
  — Caleb A. Scharf, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2020
• Phaethon is a B-type asteroid that could be similar to some carbonaceous chondrites, which could contain organic molecules — the stuff of life.
  — Blaine Friedlander, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2017
• Here, meteoriticist Laurence Garvie holds a large piece of a famous carbonaceous chondrite known as Murray, which fell in Kentucky in 1950.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2014
• The carbonaceous chondrite, which contains organics, amino acids and other ingredients for life, is so rare that it has never been found in that region before.
  — Elizabeth Howell, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• Most of these were likely not comets but rather asteroids called carbonaceous chondrites, which can be up to 20 percent water by weight, storing it in a form of hydrogen like ringwoodite.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2018
• One common theory holds that rocky planets like Earth and Mars got much of their water from a particular type of meteorite known as carbonaceous chondrites.
  — Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2020
• But in contrast to chondrites, Earth's upper mantle has a relatively low amount of silicon compared to its magnesium.
  — National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2019
• From the beginning, the inky Aguas Zarcas resembled a legendary carbonaceous chondrite that exploded in 1969 over Murchison, an Australian cattle town.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2020
• Primitive carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, thought to be parts of the original nebula that formed the solar system, come in at ~4.56 billion.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2018
• Carbonaceous chondrite: Comprise about three percent of all meteorites collected after being seen to fall to Earth.
  — Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press, 17 Jan. 2018
• Phobos and Deimos could not have been created from the primordial matter that created Mars (meteorites such as ordinary chondrite), based on the light signatures emitted by both moons.
  — Jordan Rice, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2016
• Asteroids come in two general flavors: chondrite and achondrite.
  — Melissa Gaskill, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2023
• The rocks are similar to carbonaceous chondrites, which are primitive meteorites.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 May 2020
• Researchers determined that the meteorite that crashed through the family’s home is a type LL-6 chondrite, a rocky meteorite characterized by tiny mineral spheres within its body.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• For example, carbonaceous chondrites—some of the oldest rocks in the solar system—were recently found to harbor pyruvic acid, which is essential for metabolism.
  — David W. Brown, Smithsonian, 2 July 2018
• For instance, chondrites are stony meteorites that scientists think may be remnants of ancient planetary formation.
  — National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2019

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