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A ganister is a hard, fine-grained quartzose sandstone or orthoquartzite which is basically used in the manufacture of silica brick typically used to line furnaces and is a type of sedimentary rocks.
From gan′is-ter i.e a hard, close-grained siliceous stone, often forming the stratum which underlies a coal-seam
Coarse Grained Rock, Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone
Coarse Grained Rock, Opaque Rock