plutonic
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However, Page Six reports that the duo’s relationship is plutonic and not romantic.
From Fox News • Aug. 3, 2021
On the figure above, the top row has both plutonic and volcanic igneous rocks arranged in a continuous spectrum from felsic on the left to intermediate, mafic, and ultramafic toward the right.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
“We’re exactly like a man capable of sustaining a plutonic friendship with an attractive female co-worker — we’re entirely hypothetical.”
From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2015
Oliver Sacks writes of his own experience with aluminum chemistry, “Huge energies, plutonic forces, were being unleashed, and I had a thrilling, but precarious sense of being in control—sometimes just.”
From Slate • May 3, 2013
The plutonic or intrusive rocks, which have been forced into the crust and have consolidated there, present a wide range of texture from the most coarse-grained granites to the most perfect natural glass.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
