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Definition: PYROCHLORE |
PYROCHLORENoun1. A niobate of calcium, cerium, and other bases, occurring usually in octahedrons of a yellowish or brownish color and resinous luster; -- so called from its becoming grass-green on being subjected to heat under the blowpipe. |
Etymology: Pyrochlore \Pyr"o*chlore\, noun. [Pyro- Greek expression pale green.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. An isometric mineral, (Ca,Na)2 Nb2 O6 (OH,F) ; forms a series with microlite; in pegmatites in Maine, California, Colorado, Africa, and Europe; a source of niobium. Syn:pyrrhite b. The mineral group including the betafite subgroup betafite, plumbobetafite, and yttrobetafite; the microlite subgroup bariomicrolite, bismutomicrolite, microlite, plumbomicrolite, and uranmicrolite; and the pyrochlore subgroup bariopyrochlore, ceriopyrochlore, kalipyrochlore,plumbopyrochlore, uranpyrochlore, and yttropyrochlore. (references) |
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Crosswords: PYROCHLORE |
| Specialty definitions using "PYROCHLORE": scheteligite. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "PYROCHLORE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | pyroklor. (various references) | ||||
Dutch | pyrochloor. (various references) | ||||
French | pyrochlore. (various references) | ||||
German | pyrochlor. (various references) | ||||
Italian | pirocloro. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | yrochlorepay | ||||
| Words rhyming with "PYROCHLORE" (pronounced 'Pyr"o*chlore'): Chrysochlore. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-l-o-o-p-r-r-y" | |
-3 letters: colorer, coopery, orphrey, precool, pyrrole, recolor. | |
-4 letters: cherry, choler, cooler, cooper, cypher, hooper, looper, ochery, phooey, poorer, poorly, pyrrol, recopy, ropery. | |
-5 letters: ceorl, cholo, chore, chyle, color, cooer, cooey, cooly, coper, corer, coyer, crepy, crore, ephor, epoch, herry, holey, hooey, hooly, hoper, hoyle, hyper, looey, loopy, loper, lorry, ocher, ochre, ochry, orlop, perch. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-l-o-o-p-r-r-y" | |
+5 letters: electromyograph, epichlorohydrin. | |
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