🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Is this a piece of petrified wood?

[GrouseMan]

Found on a beach in Delaware. It feels porous on outside but where it is broken there’s a smooth and glossy golden brown color. There also appears to be a knot in the wood as you can see in the bump on the second picture. Heavy for its size. Is this petrified wood?

 

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[Clay Diggins]

It's Chalcedony - the variety known as flint. Flint nodules are common and often take on unusual forms.

The white porous outside is most likely a porous variety of limestone known as chalk. Flint nodules often form in chalk.