chloropal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A massive mineral, greenish in colour and opal-like in appearance, essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.
Example Sentences
- "A careful consideration of the various analyses of minerals of the chloropal group given by Dana, leads me, therefore, to propose that the following species and varieties should be regarded as a series of types to which all future discoveries in the group may be referred."
- "Several delessites and chloropals occurring in basalts have a composition very close to that of the glass."
- "Nontronite, a variety of chloropal occurs as a light yellow powder in druses of the North Conway granite (99, p. 312)."
Etymology
From chloro- + opal.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: chloro