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impsonite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
imp-sonite
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A black carbonaceous substance, believed to be derived from a fluid bitumen which polymerized after filling a vein.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Impson + -ite, after a sample from the Impson Valley (later reclassified as grahamite); coined by George Homans Eldridge in 1901.

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Usage

Inflected Forms

impsonites (plural)

Questions

What does impsonite mean?
A black carbonaceous substance, believed to be derived from a fluid bitumen which polymerized after filling a vein.
Where does impsonite come from?
From Impson + -ite, after a sample from the Impson Valley (later reclassified as grahamite); coined by George Homans Eldridge in 1901.

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