nuggety
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3ADJ.
final, gold
VERB + NUGGETY
pulverizing, type
NUGGETY + NOUN
characteristic, ores, veins
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adj
Full of nuggets.
Nuggety veins are characterized by localized, erratic, high-grades and coarse-free gold.
Mikli (1986) does not recommend plate pulverizers for the final pulverizing of nuggety gold ores, as the plate pulverizer does not significantly reduce the particle size of gold nuggets.
Having the characteristics of a nugget
Post-68 Paris weighed on the spirits like a nightmare, a frightwig succubus sucking nuggety gobbets from the brainpans of the nervous and livid.
Plastic cases that held what I knew was a single nuggety sugar rabbit—the 1960s version of today's Peeps.
Short, stocky, and powerful.
The nuggety seaman opposite grinned. “No need fer that at all, boyo!” he said, in a pleasant Welsh borders lilt.
Mark was a tattooed, hairy, nuggety, foul-mouthed Aussie bloke (you're probably thinking, as opposed to all those gentle, feminine men who work at the sewage treatment plant).
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3Nuggety veins are characterized by localized, erratic, high-grades and coarse-free gold.
WiktionaryMikli (1986) does not recommend plate pulverizers for the final pulverizing of nuggety gold ores, as the plate pulverizer does not significantly reduce the particle size of gold nuggets.
WiktionaryThis type of nuggety gold is characteristic of deluvial and proluvial placers and appears to represent residual gold to which chemicl gold has been accreted; the whole nuggets in some cases have been
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