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zeolite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English

Syllables
ze-o-lite
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several minerals, aluminosilicates of sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium, that have a porous structure (originally, those which swelled and gave off water when heated); they are used in water softeners, in ion exchange chromatography, and as industrial catalysts.

Countable; Uncountable

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Etymology

From Swedish zeolit, and its source, New Latin zeolites, from Ancient Greek ζέω (zéō, “to boil, bubble”) + -lite.

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Inflected Forms

zeolites (plural)

Derived Forms

metallozeolite nanozeolite zeolitic zeolitiform zeolitise zeolitize

Questions

What does zeolite mean?
Any of several minerals, aluminosilicates of sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium, that have a porous structure (originally, those which swelled and gave off water when heated); they are used in water softeners, in ion exchange chromatography, and as industrial catalysts.
Where does zeolite come from?
It is traced to Swedish.

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