kieselguhr
Pronunciation
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈkiːzəlɡʊə/
kieselguhr
- diatomaceous earth. A kind of soft rock containing the remains of diatoms; it absorbs nitroglycerine and is used to manufacture dynamite.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 191:
- It was the only name anybody seemed to know him by, “Kieselguhr” being a kind of fine clay, used to soak up nitroglycerine and stabilize it into dynamite.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 191:
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003