单词 | articulite |
释义 | † articuliten. Geology. Obsolete. rare. C. M. Wetherill's name for: the rock itacolumite, a form of sandstone. ΚΠ 1867 C. M. Wetherill in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 44 64 This flexibility is due to small and innumerable ball and socket joints, which exist throughout the mass of the stone very uniformly... This jointed structure is so wonderful that it would warrant the name 'articulite' to be given to the mineral. 1870 Chem. News 2 Sept. 111/2 Any one possessing a microscope and a fragment of this rock can..demonstrate that Dr. Wetherill's proposed name of articulite is inappropriate for itacolumnite [sic]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1867 |
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