goudron
/ɡuːˈdɹɒn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The manner of laying down the asphalt is as follows : -A fire is first lighted under the boiler, then the goudron is put in."
- "About 50 kilos of goudron from Romany oil were carefully cracked at about 400 °C., partly with steam an partly without. In the latter case, dark paraffin wax was obtained from the higher fractions, […]"
- "He is unable to select his crude, and often has to be satisfied with a worse residuum; nor is he in a position to dispose of his goudron as the latter, and for all these reasons, such a refinery is compelled to secure as high a ..."
- "The carbon electrodes rest on a layer f of goudron, which is tar boiled or evaporated to a density greater than that of ordinary tar."
- "In some parts the oil soaks through river alluvia and forms small goudron deposits."
- "For this purpose, the goudrons are diluted with a certain quantity of water, so as to reduce the acid to 50 °B.; at the same time, the mass is energetically blown with air, in order to separate and to bring to the surface of the ..."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: goudron