carbonite

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates. countable,uncountable
    — He was pleased with bellite, he found that carbonite made more fumes than bellite, but the explosive he liked best was ammonite.
  2. An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpetre, sulfur, and kieselguhr. countable,uncountable
  3. A naturally occurring carbonaceous material formed from coal, natural coke. countable,uncountable
    — In some Scottish localities, in the neighbourhood of trap dykes, coal is found to have been changed to coke ("carbonite"). Similar effects have been noticed (1882) in Midlothian, Chesterfield Co., Va., where the carbonite seam is 15 feet thick.

词形变化

carbonites plural

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Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbon
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English carbonite
From carbon + -ite.
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