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Plutonic
is always a great word to know.
So is soil. Does it mean:
| portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus |
| ratio of the volume of the pores of a substance to the total volume of the mass |
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plutonic
"pertaining to or involving intense heat deep in the earth's crust," 1796, from Pluto (q.v.) as god of the underworld; especially in ref. to early 19c. geological theory (championed by Hutton) that attributed most of the earth's features to action of internal heat, and which
EXPANDtriumphed over its rival, neptunism, which attributed them to water.
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