schist
noun/ʃɪst/
/ʃɪst/
[uncountable]- a type of rock formed of layers of different minerals, that breaks naturally into thin flat piecesWord Originlate 18th cent.: from French schiste, via Latin from Greek skhistos ‘split’, from the base of skhizein ‘cleave’.
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