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Definition: Chrysotile |
ChrysotileNoun1. A gray or green fibrous mineral; an important source of commercial asbestos. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Chemistry | White, gray, or greenish mineral of the serpentine group; it is a highly fibrous, silky variety of serpentine, and constitutes the most important type of asbestos. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A monoclinic mineral (clinochrysotile), or orthorhombic mineral (orthochrysotile, parachrysotile), [Mg6 (OH)8 Si4 O 10 ] ; serpentine group; forms soft, silky white, yellow, green, or gray flexible fibers as veins in altered ultramafic rocks; the chief asbestos minerals. (Not to be confused with chrysolite.)Syn:Canadian asbestos; serpentine asbestos. (references) |
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Crosswords: Chrysotile |
| Specialty definitions using "chrysotile": bastard asbestos ♦ chrysotile asbestos, clinochrysotil ♦ fibrous texture ♦ lefkasbestos ♦ serpentinite, silky luster. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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chrysotile | 20 |
chrysotile asbestos | 5 |
chrysotile dangerous | 2 |
asbestos chrysotile exporter | 2 |
chrysotile lab | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "chrysotile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | chrysotiel (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | krysotiili (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | clinochrysotile, chrysotile, karystiolite, asbeste serpentine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fibroses Serpentine (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos), faseriges Serpentin (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | crisotilo (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos), serpentino fibroso (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ysotilechray crisotilo (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos). (various references) crisótilo (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos), serpentina fibrosa (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos), asbesto del Canadá (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos). (various references) krysotil (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "chrysotile": chrysotiles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chrysolite. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-l-o-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: chlorites, clothiers, cryolites, rhyolites. | |
-2 letters: ceorlish, chlorite, chortles, cloister, clothier, coistrel, costlier, cryolite, hostelry, hysteric, lecythis, rhyolite, slithery, trochils. | |
-3 letters: cholers, chortle, christy, cithers, citoles, clerisy, clothes, clyster, coheirs, coilers, colters, coltish, corslet, costrel, eoliths, erotics, estriol, ethylic, hectors, helotry, heriots, heroics, history, hoister, holiest, holster, horsily, hosiery, hostile, hostler, isohyet, lectors, lecythi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-l-o-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: chrysolites, chrysotiles. | |
+3 letters: chalcopyrites, heterocyclics, hypochlorites, lycanthropies, nonhysterical. | |
+4 letters: cholestyramine, erythroblastic, lachrymosities, peritrichously, prosthetically. | |
+5 letters: atmospherically, cholestyramines, dermatoglyphics, geostrophically, hypercatabolism, hypervelocities, prehistorically. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101000 01110010 01111001 01110011 01101111 01110100 01101001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C h r y s o t i l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0068 0072 0079 0073 006F 0074 0069 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37748491858186757871 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italialainen, italien, italienisch, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, svedese, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk |
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