fraccing
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I have also heard from geologists who say they spell it fraccing, and one who says it's fracting with a silent t."
- "Fraccing is the process of creating cracks in underground coal seams to increase the flow and recovery of gas or oil out of a well."
- "The industry argues that this is highly unlikely, as the fraccing takes place a mile or more below drinking water aquifers and is separated from them by thick layers of impermeable rock. Moreover, the industry has a great deal of experience with fraccing. More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago."
- "Fraccing fluids contain proppants that forced into the natural fractures of fissures of the rock under pressure."