Skarn
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of various metamorphic rocks formed by metasomatism.
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish skarn (“skarn, filth”), from Old Norse skarn, from Proto-Germanic *skarną. Doublet of sharn.
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