The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chondritic \Chon*drit"ic\, a. (Min.) Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context geology English) Of or pertaining to a chondrite. 2 (context planetology of an elemental ratio English) Similar to that found in chondrites.
WordNet
adj. having a granular structure like that of chondrites [syn: granular] [ant: achondritic]
Usage examples of "chondritic".
Except at some time in the distant past it had struck a carbonaceous chondritic asteroid.
At the other end of the scale, space activists dreamt of capturing both nickel-iron and carbonaceous chondritic asteroids and using them in combination to build cylindrical O'Neill colonies, twenty kilometres long, orbiting Gardens of Eden, revitalizing the Earth physically and spiritually.
Maybe the impact sites of chondritic meteorites are centers where life processes began.
Over the years, the forest had spread almost a quarter way up the thirty-two-kilometer tether that bound the habitat to a chondritic asteroid.
Fuchs, once a planetary geochemist, used Nautilus's electron guns to charge up his craft's skin, then covered the spacecraft with pebbles and dust from a loosely aggregated chondritic asteroid.
But that deficiency was made good from a snowball-shaped carbonaceous chondritic asteroid, one kilometre wide, which had been nudged into a fifty-kilometre orbit around Tehama in 2283.