bolognian phosphorus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A poorly-characterized phosphorescent substance obtained by heating barium sulfate.
Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "1839 John White Webster - A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the Science, in the Order in which They... and the Bolognian phosphorus, discovered by Vincenzo Cascariolo, a shoemaker of Bologna, is made by reducing compact sulphate of baryta to a fine powder, which is formed into cakes with mucilage, and these are heated to redness."