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This done, they set fire to the wood, the heat was communicated to the shist, which soon kindled, since it contains coal and sulphur.
From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules
Schist, shist, n. a term properly applied to crystalline rocks with a foliated structure, as mica-schist, hornblende-schist, &c.—indurated clay-rocks with a fissile structure are sometimes erroneously described as schists.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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