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Material expelled by an impact, eruption, or energetic event.
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- impact ejecta
- volcanic ejecta
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Impact ejecta coated the crawler's forward windows.
The lander settled beyond the apron of volcanic ejecta.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Collective plural ejecta; uncommon singular ejectum. Usually plural agreement. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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