pontianac
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fossil resin historically used in the production of some rubber, produced from the latex of Dyera costulata.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A firm of manufacturers to whom a sample of the Galactodendron latex was submitted considered that the material could be used in the rubber industry as a substitute for pontianac."
- "Some fifteen years ago enterprising technologists found that the rubber in pontianac was a very satisfactory material from the commercial standpoint, so much so that its extraction from the pontianac by deresination would be commercially sound, in view of the then obtaining price of crude rubber, provided an efficient method of extraction could be developed."
- "Glycerol, partially esterified with abietic acid is preferred although glycerol, etc., esterified with rosin, Congo, manila, the pontianacs, the shellacs, kauri, copal or other fossil resins may be used."
- "If the acetone extract is brittle, the presence of a resin is indicated. It may be either rosin, coumarone resin or pontianac resin."
Etymology
From Pontianac, an older spelling of Pontianak, a port city in West Kalimantan, from which the resin was shipped, named for the ghostly pontianaks which supposedly once inhabited the site.
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
pontianac copal
pontianac gum
pontianac jelutong
pontianac resin
pontianac rubber