How to Use chondrite in a Sentence

chondrite

noun
  • In all, chondrites make up 85 percent of the meteorites found on Earth.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The carbonaceous chondrite is divided into six groups based on their bulk chemistry.
    — Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press, 17 Jan. 2018
  • In other words, chondrites are the perfect meteorites to study for clues about the origin of our solar system.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The Winchcombe meteorite belongs to a rare class of space rocks known as carbonaceous chondrites.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 25 June 2023
  • Like the Malibu, the space rock — an H6 chondrite — would not be a Maserati among meteorites.
    — Michael P. McKinney, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2017
  • These are the same minerals found in CI chondrites like Revelstoke.
    — Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Most meteorites are stony, called chondrites, and they can be bought online for as little as $15 per ounce (50 cents per gram).
    — Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But carbonaceous chondrites probably aren't the only sources of the Earth's water.
    — Sorcha Bradley, The Week Uk, theweek, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Physicist John Remo holds a slice of the Leoville chondrite, a meteorite billions of years old.
    — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2015
  • Chunks of enstatite chondrite are still around in the solar system, and occasionally fall as meteorites.
    — Caleb A. Scharf, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2020
  • The type of meteorite that produces the fragments that littered Winchcombe was made of carbonaceous chondrite.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The meteorite is classified as a carbonaceous chondrite, which is an rare piece of space debris that’s older than the planets in the solar system.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2021
  • While the team hasn’t fully analyzed the new finds, the largest one appears to be an ordinary chondrite, the most common type of space rock, containing lots of metal.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The meteorite—a rare type known as a carbonaceous chondrite—may contain complex organic molecules that gave life on Earth a head start.
    — Joel Goldberg, Science | AAAS, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Comets, which come from beyond the orbit of Neptune, resemble carbonaceous chondrites, but with extra water ice.
    — Byadam Mann, science.org, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The rocks are similar to carbonaceous chondrites, which are primitive meteorites.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 May 2020
  • The carbonaceous chondrite, which contains organics, amino acids and other ingredients for life, is so rare that it has never been found in that region before.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The resemblance between real chondrites and the model’s results isn’t exact, however.
    — Javier Barbuzano, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
  • But in contrast to chondrites, Earth's upper mantle has a relatively low amount of silicon compared to its magnesium.
    — National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2019
  • The researchers revealed that the water in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites is similiar to the water in Earth’s oceans.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Future work might link the object to one of the subtypes of carbonaceous chondrites, which hail from different regions of the outer Solar System.
    — Byadam Mann, science.org, 15 Aug. 2024
  • While carbonaceous chondrites make up the majority of rocks in space, only about 5% of the meteorites that fall to Earth belong to this category.
    — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Most of these were likely not comets but rather asteroids called carbonaceous chondrites, which can be up to 20 percent water by weight, storing it in a form of hydrogen like ringwoodite.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2018
  • One common theory holds that rocky planets like Earth and Mars got much of their water from a particular type of meteorite known as carbonaceous chondrites.
    — Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Closer analysis revealed that the meteorite was formed from eight types of CM chondrite, the most common variation of carbonaceous chondrite.
    — Sorcha Bradley, The Week Uk, theweek, 17 Apr. 2024
  • For example, carbonaceous chondrites—some of the oldest rocks in the solar system—were recently found to harbor pyruvic acid, which is essential for metabolism.
    — David W. Brown, Smithsonian, 2 July 2018
  • The one pound of carbonaceous chondrite plowed into the English town of Winchcombe in February 2021.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Analysis found the samples were ordinary chondrites, the most common type of stony meteorite found on Earth, accounting for about 86 percent of all space rocks recovered.
    — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Most of the evidence for these collisions comes from high levels of chondrites—meteoric ingredients made up of silicates, sulphides, iron-nickel, and more—in limestone that dates back to that period.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The age of the grains in their dust can be identified and dated by their isotopic signatures, and the team compared the Ryugu dust samples to grains found in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites that have been found on Earth.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2022

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