What's the difference between firestone and sandstone?

Firestone


Definition:

  • (n.) Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.
  • (n.) A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their name, National City Lines, sounded innocuous enough, but the list of their investors included General Motors, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks, and other companies who stood to benefit much more from a future running on gasoline and rubber than on electricity and rails.
  • (2) At one point I try to relate something she just said to her latest movie, The East , which we are meant to be discussing, and she does a double-take as if to say: "Why do you want me to do movie promotion stuff when we can talk about radical feminist Shulamith Firestone instead?"
  • (3) Maybe Firestone's ideas need to be taken less literally and more in terms of what they reveal about how society arranges itself around women's fertility.
  • (4) trans-4-Ethoxycarbonyl-3-ethyl-1-(4-nitrophenyl-sulfonyl)-azetidin -3-one described by Firestone et al.
  • (5) The conviction came in 1949, with GM, Firestone, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, and Mack Trucks found guilty and subsequently slapped on the wrists.
  • (6) After NYT Editorial board editor David Firestone posted the NYT's editorial on Twitter and heralded the speech as "a momentous turning point, making clear an unending state of war is unsustainable," I asked him : "Will it be 'momentous' if it's not followed up with decisive and prompt action?"
  • (7) Robert Firestone, a resident of Las Vegas, said Clinton had a “stellar” history of backing LGBT rights and income inequality.
  • (8) Human-biting adults and late instar larvae of the Simulium damnosum complex from four ecologically different simuliid breeding habitats in the Firestone Rubber Plantation at Harbel, Liberia, were identified morphologically and the monthly species composition of each site was recorded.
  • (9) GR binds selectively to discrete regions of DNA in mouse mammary tumor virus (Payvar, F., DeFranco, D., Firestone, G.L., Edgar, B., Wrange, O., Okret, S., Gustafsson, J.-A., and Yamamoto, K. R. (1983) Cell 35, 381-392).
  • (10) Plenty of brilliant writers have written about how infighting destroyed feminism's powerful second wave in the 70s, including Nora Ephron in her painful and funny essay Miami about the fight between Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, and, at the more radical end of the spectrum, Susan Faludi's beautiful essay about Shulamith Firestone , published in the New Yorker last year.
  • (11) There is nothing in today’s outcome that addresses, let alone validates, plain packaging in Australia or anywhere else,” said Marc Firestone, Philip Morris International senior vice president and general counsel.
  • (12) We have used complement-mediated cytolysis to recover variants of M1.54 that fail to express MTV cell surface glycoproteins in a hormone-regulated manner (Firestone, G.L., and K.R.
  • (13) Black fly vectors of onchocerciasis from three ecologically different Simuliid breeding habitats in the Firestone Rubber Plantation at Harbel, Liberia, were surveyed by human-biting collections conducted at weekly intervals over a 13-month period.
  • (14) But on major policy statements or on endorsements of candidates, he knows what the paper is going to say and is frequently consulted – that’s how it should be.” Firestone added: “I don’t know of any publisher who pays no attention to the editorial board on the papers they own.
  • (15) I'm worried about the terrifying dystopian futures that this will create (or utopian, if you're a fan of Shulamith Firestone, who thought that cybernetics could emancipate women from the oppression of their own biology through creating artificial wombs ).
  • (16) Lowry carded a flawless final round of 66 at Firestone Country Club to finish 11 under par, two shots ahead of the double Masters champion Bubba Watson , with Justin Rose and Jim Furyk another two shots back after disappointing rounds of 72.
  • (17) And there were others, such as Renee Firestone, who described the death of the Ovitz dwarves: "The Germans found a community of midgets, transported them to Auschwitz, shot them en masse and then were forced to let them sit in a pile for three days until the crematoria could take them."
  • (18) A., Patel, R. G., Wong, K. Y., Manula, P. W., Firestone, G. L., Brunetti, A., Verspohl, E., and Goldfine, I. D. (1989) J. Biol.
  • (19) The women are influenced by the underground American Riot Grrrl movement of the 1990s that addressed issues such as domestic violence, rape and patriarchy; punk bands including Bikini Kill; and feminists, among them Simone de Beauvoir and Shulamith Firestone.
  • (20) Arthur doesn’t come to every meeting or get involved in every editorial,” said David Firestone, a former member of the Times’s editorial board.

Sandstone


Definition:

  • (n.) A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Flames could be seen through the scorched windows and billowing out of the roof of the sandstone building on the corner of Renfrew Street and Scott Street.
  • (2) Pueblo Bonita, constructed from artfully stacked sandstone blocks between AD900 and 1100, was once the centre of culture and commerce for the ancient Puebloan people .
  • (3) Aside from history enthusiasts and couples seeking privacy from the crowded city, few enter the red sandstone gate between the fort’s stout bastions.
  • (4) This is probably explained by the intensity of exposure and the particular kind of sandstone being worked.
  • (5) Inside the cottages – which sleep four, five and six people – oak beams and sandstone walls are offset by 21st-century comforts such as satellite TV, DVD players and dishwashers.
  • (6) The light sandstone Union Buildings , at 99 a year younger than the ANC, are a visual metaphor for the republic's rich and sometimes jarring contradictions.
  • (7) The prevalence of silicosis in these open-cast sandstone quarriers is unexpectedly high.
  • (8) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.
  • (9) The standardized incidence ratio (SIR) for lung cancer was 200 (44 observed, 22.0 expected) for all skilled stone workers, 808 (7 observed, 0.9 expected) for skilled sandstone cutters in Copenhagen, 119 (8 observed, 6.5 expected) for skilled granite cutters in Bornholm, 181 (24 observed, 13.2 expected) for all unskilled stone workers, 246 (17 observed, 6.9 expected) for unskilled workers in the road and building material industry, and 111 (7 observed, 6.3 expected) for unskilled workers in the stonecutting industry.
  • (10) There's limestone and sandstone to the north, but Aswan's bedrock is hornblende granite.
  • (11) The iron-oxides (superfine hematite) are eroded from the Peron Sandstone exposed in some coastal cliffs and constitute up to 2% of substrate sediments near these cliffs.
  • (12) Many of the grindstones used in Nigerian homes are quarried from sandstone in a small group of villages near Kano in the extreme north of the country.
  • (13) It's nonsense: Brown at best is some sort of decayed shale, shattered rubble containing the odd fossil and Cameron a rather smart golden sandstone.
  • (14) It comes from the new locality of Xirochori in the red sandstone of the Nea Messimbria formation.
  • (15) Monument Valley is named for the dozens of free-standing sandstone buttes and monoliths that tower above the sweeping sagebrush landscape.
  • (16) For water-wet Berea Sandstone a flood front was readily observed, but some of the oil was apparently left behind in small, isolated pockets which were larger than individual pores.
  • (17) Mahendraparvata was never really "lost" – the mountain has long been known as the location of the sandstone quarries that built Angkor's cities, as well as the source of water for a complex system that irrigated the vast empire.
  • (18) From these offices, on the lower ground floor of a Victorian sandstone building in central Glasgow, campaigners with Yes Scotland are preparing to unleash a torrent of billboard adverts, celebrity endorsements, star-studded campaign rallies, street stalls and pop-up shops selling independence for Scotland .
  • (19) Carved into the sandstone bedrock of north-eastern Arizona, near Chinle, the three spectacular canyons, De Chelly, Del Muerto, and Monument, lie at the centre of the Navajo Nation and at the heart of many native legends.
  • (20) Experimental NMR imaging measurements of two-phase displacement were conducted in several limestones and sandstones representing various different types of pore structures, including a macroscopically homogeneous structure, a laminated structure, and a sample that exhibits porosity at different scales.

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