Color Names

Flint Shard

Grey as a chip of flint, sharp enough to spark against steel.

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Flint Shard is a light grey.

It can be described as light, pale and neutral.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Flint Shard

Flint

Flint, occasionally flintstone (SiO2), is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start fires.

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flint

Noun

  1. A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
  2. A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.

Verb

  1. To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
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shard

Noun

  1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
  2. A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.

Verb

  1. To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
  2. To break (something) into shards.
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