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cacoxenite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ca-cox-en-ite
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A soft phosphate of iron occurring in yellowish clumps: hydrated iron aluminum phosphate oxide: (Fe,Al)₂₅(PO₄)₁₇O₆(OH)₁₂·17H₂O.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κακός (kakós, “bad”) + ξένος (xénos, “guest”) because the phosphorous content of cacoxenite lessens the quality of iron smelted from ore containing it.

Inflected Forms

cacoxene (alternative)

Questions

What does cacoxenite mean?
A soft phosphate of iron occurring in yellowish clumps: hydrated iron aluminum phosphate oxide: (Fe,Al)₂₅(PO₄)₁₇O₆(OH)₁₂·17H₂O.
Where does cacoxenite come from?
From Ancient Greek κακός (kakós, “bad”) + ξένος (xénos, “guest”) because the phosphorous content of cacoxenite lessens the quality of iron smelted from ore containing it.

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