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Eruptive   /ˌɪrˈəptɪv/   Listen
noun
Eruptive  n.  (Geol.) An eruptive rock.


adjective
Eruptive  adj.  
1.
Breaking out or bursting forth. "The sudden glance Appears far south eruptive through the cloud."
2.
(Med.) Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever.
3.
(Geol.) Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic.





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"Eruptive" Quotes from Famous Books



... central mountain range is found a nucleus of eruptive rocks which have raised and twisted sedimentary strata, covering them and forcing them aside. This nucleus is not a regular feature of the whole length of the chain, but is an irregular mass beginning about ...
— Santo Domingo - A Country With A Future • Otto Schoenrich
... cannot at present see is that the emanation from radium gradually and spontaneously changes into helium, an alchemistical feat of nature that has opened many curious vistas to speculative thinkers. The eruptive prominences, which do not spread horizontally like the others, but ascend with marvelous velocity to elevations of half a million miles or more, are apparently composed largely of metallic vapors — i.e. metals which are usually solid on the earth, but which at solar temperatures ...
— Curiosities of the Sky • Garrett Serviss
... weak soda lye, after the customary manner. This yields a moderately firm and clear soap, which may be readily used by application to parts affected with eruptions at night, mixed with a little water, and carefully washed off the following morning. This soap has lately been much used for eruptive disorders, particularly on the Continent, and with varying degrees of success. It is thought that the efficient element in its composition is a rather less impure hydrocarburet than that known in Paris under the name huile de cade. On account of its ready miscibility ...
— The Art of Perfumery - And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants • G. W. Septimus Piesse
... read Burckhardt, makes the same remark. The many eruptive centres in the limestones of Syria and Palestine were discovered chiefly by my late friend, the loved and lamented Charles F. Tyrwhitt-Drake. It would be interesting to ascertain the relation which they bear to tile great lines of vulcanism in the ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... visitor's eruptive outburst of amazement. "Ef ther man-person thet used ter dwell in this hyar house, and his kinfolks, hed of shot thet fashion, I reckon mebby ther Rowletts wouldn't never hev run old Burrell ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck


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