Plural of granite; multiple samples or types of the igneous rock composed of feldspar, quartz, and mica.
From 'granite,' which entered English from Italian 'granito' (speckled or grainy), derived from Latin 'granum' (grain), describing the rock's granular appearance.
Granite is one of the most common rocks in Earth's continental crust, and it forms the peaks of mountains and the cores of continents—basically the skeleton of our planet!
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