whinstone
Chiefly British. any of the dark-colored, fine-grained rocks, especially igneous rocks, as dolerite and basalt.
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The report states that crypto companies like whinstone, Core Scientific, Argo Blockchain, and Lancium receive long-term energy contracts that provide them “cheap wholesale energy.”
In Texas, a strained grid braces for more crypto mining | Thor Benson | August 1, 2022 | Popular-ScienceBelow this mass lies a pale red hardened sandstone, and beneath that a trap-like whinstone.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa | David LivingstoneThe result was an intermediate substance, neither glass nor whinstone—a sort of slag.
An Introduction to the History of Science | Walter LibbyIn a short time we arrived at a pretty large river, called Boki, which we forded; it ran smooth and clear over a bed of whinstone.
Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2] | Mungo ParkFire flew from the smitten blue whinstone where the point, with all the weight of his young body behind it, impinged on the wall.
The Black Douglas | S. R. Crockett
It consisted of an elevated tableland composed of ironstone and granite occasionally traversed by veins of whinstone.
British Dictionary definitions for whinstone
/ (ˈwɪnˌstəʊn) /
any dark hard fine-grained rock, such as basalt
Origin of whinstone
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