petrologist

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petrologist

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noun petrologists

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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noun petrological scientist

Русский	петро́лог petrólog

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@misc{petrologist_2026,
  title = {petrologist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/petrologist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}