chert

English

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

chert (countable and uncountable, plural cherts)

1. (geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.
2. (countable) A flint-like tool made from chert.

Usage notes

Generally, in mineralogy and geology, a chert does not have a conchoidal fracture. In North American archeology the term chert occasionally is still used for various siliceous minerals (including flint) that have a conchoidal fracture; this leads to confusion between the terms flint and chert in some archeology texts.

Derived terms

• chertification
• chertified

Translations

mineral

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: sílex
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燧石 (zh) (suìshí)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: ränikivi
• French: chaille (fr)
• German: Hornstein, Feuerstein (de)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: csert
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ftanite f
• Japanese: 角岩 (kakugan), チャート (ja) (chāto)
• Maori: whaiapu
• Polish: rogowiec
• Portuguese: sílex córneo m
• Russian: сла́нец (ru) m (slánec), кремни́стый известня́к m (kremnístyj izvestnják)
• Slovene: roženec m
• Spanish: sílex m, pedernal (es) m
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: gornfaen

See also

• chalcedony
• flint
• jasper
• quartzite
• silicate

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Chert”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “chert”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Anagrams

• retch

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xʲer͈t/

Adjective

chert

1. Lenited form of cert.

Noun

chert

1. Lenited form of cert.