iceland spar
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A transparent form of calcite, used to demonstrate the polarization of light.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "portions of the original aragonite—which make up the nacreous layers of the pearl—had, through “induced paramorphism,” as it was known to the artful sons of Nippon, been selectively changed here and there to a different form of calcium carbonate—namely, to microscopic crystals of the doubly refracting calcite known as Iceland spar."