英语词汇“mountain wood”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) Used attributively in the descriptive names of varieties of asbestos with a particular texture, indicated by the second element, as mountain cork, mountain flesh, mountain leather, mountain paper, mountain wood. Also mountain flax n. 2. Now chiefly historical.

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1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 163 It is found..in thin flat pieces, then called mountain leather, or paper.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 163 Mountain cork.

1816 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. (ed. 2) III. 577 Mountain or rock wood.

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 1061 Xylolite. Syn. with mountain-wood, or ligniform asbestos.

1874 Manufacturer & Builder Jan. 16/2 Fig. 1 represents a sample of a form of asbestos commonly called mountain wood, as it has so much the appearance of wood that ignorant persons insist that it must be petrified wood.

1879 Rep. Progr. 1877–8 Geol. Surv. Canada xii. 16 In a specimen said to have come from the Grant Mine in Buckingham, glassy quartz was imbedded in a mass of mountain leather.

1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 424 Pilolite is the name given to ‘mountain leather’, usually regarded as a fibrous amphibole.

1882 Manufacturer & Builder Nov. 257/1 The varieties [of asbestos] here are amithus [read amianthus], common asbestos, mountain cork, ligniform asbestos, mountain leather and mountain paper.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 418/1 Structure [of Pilolite] varies considerably, and has given rise to trivial names, as..mountain flesh..&c.

1899 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 28 254 A portion of the old, thick, brown weathering (like ‘mountain-cork’) remains on one face.

1921 Mineral. Abstr. 1 237 Paligorskite (‘mountain-cork’) from Billowitz near Brünn.

1945 Science 29 June 10/2 Mountain leather, a type of asbestos that has only been a museum curiosity in the past, is now found adaptable to industrial uses.

1993 A. M. Clark Hey's Mineral Index (ed. 3) 472/2 Mountain cork, syn. of asbestos, pilolite, and palygorskite.

1997 Sci. Amer. July 55/1 Several dozen names were eventually assigned to the different forms of asbestos, including ‘mountain leather’, ‘incombustible linen’, ‘rock floss’, and ‘feathered alum’.

单词	mountain wood
释义	> as lemmas mountain wood (b) Used attributively in the descriptive names of varieties of asbestos with a particular texture, indicated by the second element, as mountain cork, mountain flesh, mountain leather, mountain paper, mountain wood. Also mountain flax n. 2. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 163 It is found..in thin flat pieces, then called mountain leather, or paper. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 163 Mountain cork. 1816 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. (ed. 2) III. 577 Mountain or rock wood. 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 1061 Xylolite. Syn. with mountain-wood, or ligniform asbestos. 1874 Manufacturer & Builder Jan. 16/2 Fig. 1 represents a sample of a form of asbestos commonly called mountain wood, as it has so much the appearance of wood that ignorant persons insist that it must be petrified wood. 1879 Rep. Progr. 1877–8 Geol. Surv. Canada xii. 16 In a specimen said to have come from the Grant Mine in Buckingham, glassy quartz was imbedded in a mass of mountain leather. 1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 424 Pilolite is the name given to ‘mountain leather’, usually regarded as a fibrous amphibole. 1882 Manufacturer & Builder Nov. 257/1 The varieties [of asbestos] here are amithus [read amianthus], common asbestos, mountain cork, ligniform asbestos, mountain leather and mountain paper. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 418/1 Structure [of Pilolite] varies considerably, and has given rise to trivial names, as..mountain flesh..&c. 1899 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 28 254 A portion of the old, thick, brown weathering (like ‘mountain-cork’) remains on one face. 1921 Mineral. Abstr. 1 237 Paligorskite (‘mountain-cork’) from Billowitz near Brünn. 1945 Science 29 June 10/2 Mountain leather, a type of asbestos that has only been a museum curiosity in the past, is now found adaptable to industrial uses. 1993 A. M. Clark Hey's Mineral Index (ed. 3) 472/2 Mountain cork, syn. of asbestos, pilolite, and palygorskite. 1997 Sci. Amer. July 55/1 Several dozen names were eventually assigned to the different forms of asbestos, including ‘mountain leather’, ‘incombustible linen’, ‘rock floss’, and ‘feathered alum’. extracted from mountainn.adj. < as lemmas
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