vitrain
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A constituent of banded bituminous coal consisting of a horizontal glossy band of friable material.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The caking behaviour of vitrain and clarain could be improved after the coal has been picked out."
- "In order to measure relatively accurately the activation energy of coal, and to exclude the disturbance from coal samples, the hand-picked banded vitrains in bright coal are adopted as experimental samples (Table 1)."
- "Thus, it may be concluded that a lower viscosity of plastic vitrain grains facilitates pores to grow and coalesce and grains to stick to one another to create intergrain pores."
Etymology
From Latin vitreus (“vitreous”) + -ain in fusain; compare French -ain (“-ane”). Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1918.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: vitreus