huminous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to humin.
Example Sentences
- "The organic zeolites as here defined are made from carbonaceous, resinous and huminous materials and operate in the cation-exchange cycle employing sodium in regeneration."
- "In the carbon balance there are some differences in the share or bituminous and huminous carbon, free hydrocarbon contents as well as hydrogen and oxygen indices, but ..."
- "On the other hand, the strength of the connection which the ion of a heavy metal establishes with its substrate will directly determine its mobility -- the ion bound by weak, adsorptive connections to some substrate will easily convert into a solution, while the huminous associated metals will be firmly gound to their substrate."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more huminous (comparative)
most huminous (superlative)