Petrologist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A geologist who specializes in petrology.

    "As Kirkpatrick worked, Otto Hahn - an intensely patriotic German lawyer and amateur petrologist turned Swedenborgian who believed life originated in outer space - was spending long hours staring down his microscope at what he took to be the fossilised remnants of algae."

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"The petrologist studies the rocks."

Etymology

From petrology + -ist.

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