kieselguhr

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkiːzəlɡʊə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Diatomaceous earth, a kind of soft rock containing the remains of diatoms; it absorbs nitroglycerine and is used to manufacture dynamite. countable,uncountable
    — It was the only name anybody seemed to know him by, “Kieselguhr” being a kind of fine clay, used to soak up nitroglycerine and stabilize it into dynamite.

词形变化

kieselguhrs plural

词源

Borrowed from German Kieselguhr, older spelling of Kieselgur, from Kiesel (“pebble, gravel”) + Gur (“guhr”).
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