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Chrysotile

Definition: Chrysotile

Chrysotile

Noun

1. 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.
 

"Chrysotile" is a common misspelling or typo for: Christie, crystal, crystals.


Specialty Definitions: Chrysotile

DomainDefinitions

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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Synonyms: Chrysotile

Synonyms by domain: clinochrisotile (chemistry), fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos.

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Crosswords: Chrysotile

Specialty definitions using "chrysotile": bastard asbestoschrysotile asbestos, clinochrysotilfibrous texturelefkasbestosserpentinite, silky luster. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Chrysotile

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

chrysotile

20

chrysotile asbestos

5

chrysotile dangerous

2

asbestos chrysotile exporter

2

chrysotile lab

2
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Modern Translations: Chrysotile

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

   

Portuguese

  

crisotilo (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

crisótilo (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos), serpentina fibrosa (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos), asbesto del Canadá (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

krysotil (clinochrisotile, fibrous serpentine, serpentine asbestos). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Chrysotile

Derivations

Words beginning with "chrysotile": chrysotiles. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Chrysotile

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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Alternative Orthography: Chrysotile


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 68 72 79 73 6F 74 69 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ....    .-.    -.--.    ...    ---    -    ..    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101000 01110010 01111001 01110011 01101111 01110100 01101001 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#104 &#114 &#121 &#115 &#111 &#116 &#105 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0068 0072 0079 0073 006F 0074 0069 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37748491858186757871

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Chrysotile"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutossuomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionranskalainen, français, französisch, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska

German

wörterbuch, ÜbersetzungDuitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitalialainen, italien, italienisch, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättningZweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, svedese, sueco, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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