chloritic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Next Reports Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes Jean Morrison, * J. Lawford Anderson Oxygen isotope compositions of epidote and quartz from chloritic breccias that underlie the detachment fault in the metamorphic core complex of the Whipple Mountains yielded quartz-epidote fractionations that range from 4.1 to 6.4 per mil and increase systematically toward the fault."
- "The river could still be followed a short distance further upwards; and in its bed there were disjointed fragments of talcose and chloritic rocks."
- "I have not the least doubt of such facts occurring, from what I have seen (and described at M. Video) of portions of fine chloritic schists being entangled in the midst of a gneiss district."
Etymology
From chlorite + -ic.